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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 2d

Attending Data Stack Conf in Sofia, Bulgaria this October? Join our engineers Devrim Gunduz, Danish Khan, and Karthik Dulam for their sessions on #PostgreSQL extensions, PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, and MLOPs & data transformation with Airflow: datastackconf.com#complete-age...

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 3d

The 11th edish' of the EDB Engineering Newsletter is out, and it's jampacked! Lots of blogs from our #PostgreSQL 18 patch authors and contributors, the chaotic story of the mystical seahorse emoji, and more nerdiness: edbeng.substack.com/p/edb-engine...

EDB Engineering Newsletter #11

Each release of PostgreSQL is a really big deal for us, so you’ll forgive us if there is quite a lot to talk about on the topic in this edition!

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 3d

EDB Global Solution Architect Boriss Mejias will be on the "Talking Postgres" podcast today, hosted by Claire Giordano from Microsoft. You can join live at 17:00 UTC (19:00 CEST, 10:00am PT) by joining the Discord: aka.ms/open-source-...

Talking Postgres, with Claire Giordano

Talking Postgres is a podcast for developers who love Postgres. Guests join Claire Giordano each month to discuss the human side of PostgreSQL, databases, and open source.

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 4d

At Cloud Native Denmark today? We had lots of great conversations yesterday following our "PostgreSQL on Kubernetes AMA" prompt. Some about (restoring & promoting) replica clusters, some about migrating to #PostgreSQL from Oracle, and we got to meet with several @cloudnativepg.bsky.social users!

EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 5d

In London tonight? Our Senior Product Manager Simon Notley will give a talk about "Measuring query latency the hard way: an adventure in impractical Postgres monitoring" at the #PostgreSQL meetup.

For terrible/silly use of tech, and math-stuff, join: www.meetup.com/london-postg...

PostgreSQL Query Latency & Transaction Isolation, Tue, Oct 7, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

We're excited to be back for our 4th event of 2025 and pleased to say this event is being supported by Cockroach Labs. The event will be taking a look at measuring query latency the hard way and a practical story of serializable isolation.

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 5d

At Cloud Native Denmark this week? Come say hi at our booth, we're running @cloudnativepg.bsky.social demos basically non-stop, and there's stuff to win as well 🐘 💐 ⚽ (the emojis will make sense when you show up, promised)!

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 6d

One of the headlining features of PostgreSQL 18 is virtual generated columns, which our Chief Architect Peter Eisentraut worked on. He tells the engaging story of that feature on the EDB blog: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/journey... #PostgreSQL #PG18

The journey to virtual generated columns

For some reason, when I started out on this project, I decided to start with virtual generated columns. I think on balance that might have appeared to be the most requested kind, and maybe I also thought it was the easiest to implement first. I was wrong!

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PostgreSQL Conference Europe @pgconf.eu · 6d

Check out the interview with Gold sponsor EDB (@edbpostgres.bsky.social) just posted at https://2025.pgconf....!

#postgres #pgconfeu #ri##postgreso##pgconfeua##riga

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 8d

In Norway for @cloudnativebergen.dev this October 27-28? Make sure you join Gabriele Quaresima's CloudNativePG 101 session for an introduction to this operator for #PostgreSQL, a popular CNCF Sandbox project: 2025.cloudnativebergen.dev/speaker/gabr... @cloudnativepg.bsky.social

Gabriele Quaresima - CloudNativePG 101

The talk is an introduction on features and behaviours of CloudNativePG, the Kubernetes operator that covers the full lifecycle of a highly available Postgre...

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 9d

Signed up for P99 Conf - the virtual event on all things performance? We're setting an alarm for Simon Notley's session "Measuring Query Latency the Hard Way: An Adventure in Impractical Postgres Monitoring" on October 23. Find times here: www.p99conf.io/agenda/ @scylladb.com

P99 Conf Agenda

P99 CONF is two days of keynotes, technical deep dives, and lively conversations on all things performance. Join us online Oct 23-24, 2024!

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 9d

Joining @allthingsopen.bsky.social? Consider Bruce Momjian's session "Databases in the AI Trenches" for an exploration of the advances that fueled AI usage explosion, including multi-dimensional vectors, text embeddings, semantic search, transformers, and RAG: 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/dat...

Bruce Momjian • All Things Open 2025

The largest open source / web / tech conference of the U.S. East Coast

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 10d

PostgreSQL 18 introduces native OAuth2 authentication, and EDB Principal Software Engineer Guang Yi Xu walks you it in a 3-part blog series. A must-read for teams planning PG18 upgrades or integrating Postgres with enterprise identity platforms. Start here ➡️

Preview PostgreSQL 18’s OAuth2 Authentication (1) - Explore How it Works

PostgreSQL 18

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 11d

This September twelve EDB colleagues started their journey to becoming #PostgreSQL developers. We'll follow them and their patches as they progress: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/barcelo...

Barcelona beginnings: onboarding new PostgreSQL contributors

PostgreSQL is at the core of what we do at EDB, and several people here work on PostgreSQL full-time. However becoming a contributor and being successful in your contributions is not an easy task.…

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 13d

We had a great time at @pgdayna.org! The slides for our lightning talks live here: www.enterprisedb.com/event/pgday-...

With (that) business out of the way, here are some quick pictures with a VIP: the Vesuvio vulcano. We'll be back soon for (fried) pizza 🍕 Thanks for the hospitality, @pgdba.org!

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 15d

PostgreSQL 18 ships with support for OAuth 2.0. Jacob Champion, Principal Software Engineer at EDB, posted the first proof-of-concept for this feature back in 2021. He shares the journey (and some spicy opinions) on the blog: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/develop...

On Developing OAuth

Some thoughts on the history and development process behind the new OAuth support in PostgreSQL 18, and some hopes and dreams for the future.

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 16d

Our Perspectives on PostgreSQL 18 series spotlights the people behind the release. Here, Jacob Champion talks about the 4 year path to PostgreSQL’s new OAuth feature and how EDB makes room for the long, collaborative timelines that open source demands. Watch in full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQy...

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 17d

Bruce Momjian compares the PostgreSQL 18 patch review process to a trip to the dentist: a little painful, a lot necessary, and the only way to leave with something that shines.

Watch their full discussion here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dcw...

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 17d

Principal Systems Engineer at EDB Devrim Gündüz started building #PostgreSQL RPM 23 years ago as a hobby project. Fast-forward to today where he shares on the blog what's new in PostgreSQL 18 RPM land, and EDB's contribution to PostgreSQL RPM packaging: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/whats-n...

What's new in PostgreSQL 18 RPMs, and EDB's contribution to PostgreSQL RPM packaging

The PostgreSQL community YUM repository is ready for PostgreSQL 18, with new packaging updates spanning 346+ packages across major Linux distributions. Highlights include a separate OAuth2 library…

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 18d

Guang Yi Xu, Principal Engineer at EDB, posted a 2-part preview of PostgreSQL 18’s OAuth2 authentication feature 🧐

1️⃣ The internals: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/preview...
2️⃣ Building a Custom OAuth2 Validator with Rust www.enterprisedb.com/blog/preview...

Preview PostgreSQL 18’s OAuth2 Authentication (1) - Explore How it Works

PostgreSQL 18

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 19d

Sravan Velagandula, Senior Staff Engineer at EDB, loves interesting problems. Join him for the reproduction of an issue he faced while working on edb_otel, where the server crashed when apis were called from a pl/pgsql block: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/postgre... #PostgreSQL #OpenTelemetry

PostgreSQL Internals - Understanding exception handling with PG_TRY/PG_CATCH

Recently, while working on&

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 20d

Robert Haas, PostgreSQL major contributor, on our blog: "One of the pitfalls of developing a large new feature like the incremental backup feature for PostgreSQL 17, is that it's hard to anticipate the practical problems that people will encounter" www.enterprisedb.com/blog/fine-tu...

Fine Tuning Incremental Backup

One of the pitfalls of deve

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 25d

As part of our upcoming Perspectives on PostgreSQL 18 series, Floor Drees sat down with Bruce Momjian and Tom Kincaid. In this clip, Bruce explains why open source works like a democracy and why a healthy project is like a magnifying glass that amplifies the impact of every contributor 🔎

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 25d

Principal Engineer Andreas Scherbaum has 2 talks (on adding Geocoordinates to your addresses in PostgreSQL, and on backups) at the Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage this Saturday. The event will be streamed live, join if your German is "ausreichend": www.kieler-linuxtage.de/programm#Tag...

23. Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage HYBRID

Kalender abonnieren (iCal)

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 26d

Petr Jelinek, VP and Chief Architect at EDB, writes a firsthand account on the introduction of evolution of logical replication in PostgreSQL, on the blog: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/evoluti...

The Evolution of Logical Replication in PostgreSQL: A Firsthand Account

PostgreSQL has come a long way from its early days as a single-node database. If you’ve worked with PostgreSQL for a while, you’ll know its journey to robust logical replication was anything but…

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PGDay Napoli @pgdayna.org · 26d

Thank you EnterpriseDB B.V. (@edbpostgres.bsky.social) for being a Partner sponsor!

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