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Getting Ready for PostgreSQL 19
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 shipped on August 13, 2026, and the release notes have been filled in as of 2026-07-18 — still marked subject to change, and the GA date isn’t …
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Introducing YeSQL: Practical PostgreSQL, One Concept at a Time
I’m happy to share something new: YeSQL is live, a free set of 24 short PostgreSQL lessons — one concept, one runnable query, real data, no signup. It’s free …
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Introducing sqlfmt: an SQL gofmt-style formatter
Formatting SQL tends to bring some of the same questions again and again: should we uppercase clause keywords? should we put the separating comma at the start of a line …
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SQL Improvements in PostgreSQL 11–18: A Personal Selection
Seven major versions of PostgreSQL shipped between 2018 and 2025, one per year without exception, and each with a changelog of 150 to 200 user-visible changes. Each …
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pgcopydb v0.18
Hot off the press: pgcopydb v0.18 is out! It’s the biggest release the project has had — 88 commits since v0.17, which shipped in August 2024. I took a break from …
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Postgres HA: roles are dynamic
High-Availability comes with some impact on your architecture choices, in particular when applied to RDBMS such as Postgres. One such impact is the idea of a failover. …
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An introduction to the pg_auto_failover project
We just released pg_auto_failover version 1.6.3 on GitHub, and the binary packages should be already available at the usual PGDG and CitusData places, both for debian …
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PostgreSQL as a Microservice
The MACI French podcast honoured me with an invitation to a guest appearance on their weekly schedule. As you can imagine, we talked about many things related to …
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2020: Online Conferences
Among a lot of other changes, the year 2020 brings Online Conferences to us. In the Postgres community too we now record our talks at home and send a video file to be …
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List PostgreSQL tables using extensions
Postgres has extensions, and that’s awesome! Of course as the author of CREATE EXTENSION I’m a little biased… just remember that the ability to extend …
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Postgres Connection Strings and psql
PostgreSQL connection strings embedded in your application can take two different forms: the key-value notation or the postgresql:// URI scheme. When it comes to using …
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The Art Of PostgreSQL
I did it again! Today I am releasing the new edition of my book, with a new title: “The Art of PostgreSQL”. I’m very happy (and quite excited) to declare my book as …