Asynchronous I/O, OAuth authentication, expanded SQL standards support, and new extension capabilities give developers faster performance, stronger security, and greater flexibility. The PostgreSQL ...

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The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has officially released Postgres 17, marking another milestone for the community, developers, and EDB, the leading contributor to PostgreSQL code. As the ...

20 years ago this year, the original founders of EDB made two bets; one that more and more people would want to use Postgres, and another that more and more people would want to stop using Oracle.

Currently the Postgres bulk inserter uses a standard INSERT INTO ... VALUES query to insert data. This is slow compared to COPY data FROM STDIN WITH (FORMAT BINARY). Given that we already use COPY to ...

Initial load for incremental postgres syncs is done via ctid. We chunk the work to sub queries, each reading 1GB. The issue: each chunk ends with emitting a "final" state message which indicates that ...

This article was written in collaboration with Bohan Zhang and originally appeared on the OtterTune website. In this article, we’ll dive into MVCC: what it is, how PostgreSQL does it, and why it is ...