PostgreSQL 19 ships with parallel autovacuum. The new GUC autovacuum_max_parallel_workers caps the cluster-wide pool, and the per-table storage parameter autovacuum_parallel_workers lets you tune individual tables. Workers come out of the…
First in a series of dispassionate surveys of the major managed-Postgres offerings. This post is about Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL — what AWS calls “traditional RDS,” as distinct from Aurora PostgreSQL, which is a separate product with a…
In the previous article we watched every UPDATE leave dead tuple behind. The same copy-on-write behaviour shows up from the operational angle in DELETEs are difficult. That's the tradeoff of MVCC and on the heap alone it's tolerable. The…

pgBackRest is a foundational component of the PostgreSQL backup solutions supported by Percona, playing a critical role in ensuring reliable and resilient data protection for our customers. It is a testament to the strength of the open…