pgrust rewrote Postgres 18.3 in Rust with AI and passed 46,000 regression tests, yet pgbench runs 9x slower and SQLsmith found a segfault in days. Plus Andrew Kelley vs the Bun Rust rewrite, the same day on HN.
A real-world migration from pgBackRest to Barman on Railway reveals the operational cost increase in container environments and the importance of WAL slot monitoring.
Steps to set up Apache Airflow 3.2.0 with a PostgreSQL metadata database, run your first DAG, and configuration notes for moving beyond standalone mode.
Developer-focused notes on Supabase's April 2026 update — which changes are actually useful in practice. Multigres Operator going open source, docs accessible via ssh supabase.sh, and GitHub integration finally landing on the free plan.
Linux kernel 7.0-rc removes PREEMPT_NONE, causing a ~49% PostgreSQL throughput regression. The scheduler maintainer refuses to revert the change, demanding PostgreSQL adopt the new RSEQ timeslice extension instead. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships with this kernel.
Alibaba open-sourced AliSQL 8.0, which combines MySQL-compatible OLTP, DuckDB-based high-speed OLAP, and HNSW vector search into a single database. This article considers what that means amid MySQL stagnation and PostgreSQL's momentum.
