Three Decades of Relational Resilience: Tom Lane on 30 Years of PostgreSQL
As PostgreSQL marks its 30th anniversary as an open-source project, the global developer community is pausing to reflect on the...
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A Busy Week for Open Source: PostgreSQL Community Makes Major Presence felt at PGDay UK, PGDay Lowlands, and Percona Live 2026
By Cornelia Biacsics Published: September 14, 2026 Category: Community Contributions Main Facts The second week of September 2026 proved to...
The 63-Byte Trap: Why PostgreSQL’s Identifier Length Limit Is a Silent Database Danger
In the intricate machinery of relational database management systems, parameters, limits, and constraints form the invisible architecture that keeps data...
Bridging the Language Gap: The Launch of pgsql.cc and the Future of Chinese PostgreSQL Documentation
September 10, 2026 By Ruohang Feng (Adapted for Global Tech Journalism) The global PostgreSQL ecosystem has long prided itself on...
The 100-Argument Wall: Unpacking PostgreSQL’s Most Obscure and Stubborn Limit
To most database administrators and software engineers, max_function_args is a phantom. It is never queried on purpose, nor is it...
Unlocking PostgreSQL 19 Performance: How New Aggregate Support Functions Eliminate Redundancy and Speed Up Queries
Main Facts: The Evolution of PostgreSQL Optimization Database optimization has always been a delicate balancing act between high-level declarative querying...
Unlocking PostgreSQL 18 File Descriptors: The Hidden Performance Bottleneck Every DBA Must Know
Database administration is a constant balancing act between hardware resources and software configurations. Among the myriad settings inside the postgresql.conf...
The Five-Thousand-Connection Illusion: Why PostgreSQL’s Highest Default Setting is a Quiet Disaster Waiting to Happen
In the architecture of modern web applications, few settings are as universally misunderstood as PostgreSQL’s max_connections. To the uninitiated, it...
The Hidden Cost of AI Code: How Coding Agents are Over-Indexing PostgreSQL Databases
For engineering teams everywhere, the archetype of “the database guy” has become intimately familiar with a shifting landscape of technical...
A Decade-Long PostgreSQL Technical Debt Finally Paid: Unpacking the New max_active_replication_origins Parameter in PostgreSQL 18
DATABASE ADMINISTRATION — After nearly ten years of borrowing configuration space, PostgreSQL has finally codified a dedicated parameter to control...
Big Apple, Big PostgreSQL: EDB Gears Up for Postgres Summit US 2026
The heart of the global database community is set to beat in New York City this autumn as the inaugural...
The PostgreSQL "fsync" Paradox: Why the Most Dangerous Setting Requires Caution
In the vast ecosystem of PostgreSQL configuration parameters, few carry the weight and peril of fsync. Often misunderstood by novice...
