🎉 Save the date! PGConf.dev 2025 will be in Montreal, Canada from May 13 - 16, 2025 at the Plaza Centre-Ville. More details to come - stay tuned and on the website: 2025.pgconf.dev #postgresql #PGConfdev

Postgres just got even faster Like most databases, Postgres work with fixed size pages. Those pages are 8K in size, each page will have the rows, or index tuples and a fixed header. The pages are just bytes in files and they are read and cached in the buffer pool. If a table

Really interesting work from Peter Geoghegan . Fun/stupid fact: I nibbled at this 10 years ago, when only two popular databases lacked the optimisation, and discussed it with a fellow database hacker, starting a chain of events that left us as the only database without it!

Robert Haas (Robert Haas): PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop - October 2024 postgr.es/p/6DZ

🎙️ Join us for the next episode of the Talking Postgres podcast, LIVE on the Microsoft Open Source Discord, featuring guest Tom Lane 🗣️ Topic: How I got started as a developer (& in #PostgreSQL) 🗓️ Wed October 9 @ 10:00am PDT 📣 Cal invite: aka.ms/TalkingPostgre…

Lukas Fittl (Lukas Fittl): Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O postgr.es/p/76Q

An international Rust hacker conference here in Wellington, New Zealand. Check it out and spread the word. I'm hoping to make it, not only because I see PostgreSQL/Rust people are there. Lots of great technologists making the short or long journey to the blue hemisphere.

Looking forward to PostgreSQL Down Under in beautiful Sydney on Friday! Great lineup of speakers and people attending. I will be talking about some cool new features that shipped in PostgreSQL 18 and the last couple of releases. See you there! pgdu.org

PostgreSQL 19 dev: Use streaming read I/O in BRIN vacuum scan. Author: Arseniy Mukhin git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=post…