Part 1 was about failures that start one layer below Postgres: the kernel, glibc, the page allocator. This post is about the worse class, where the failure is inside Postgres itself. The logs are clean. Recovery never runs. And a query…
PostgreSQL's `DEFERRABLE` transaction mode only works with `SERIALIZABLE READ ONLY` transactions, where it waits for a safe snapshot to eliminate…
What's new in pgstream v1.1.0: env vars in YAML config, JSON logs, Kubernetes health probes, custom TLS for OpenSearch, and fixes for composite primary keys.

📌 Overview Ruby on Rails has helped make it possible to scale out the database layer, meeting the demands of millions of Aura Frames customers enjoying their digital photo frames. In late 2025, the team added additional primary databases…