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Did you know about the #PostgreSQL #Observability Summit on the @pgconf.eu Community Events Day next week? Schedule below! 👇 www.postgresql.eu/events/pgcon... Organised by Adrien Obernesser, @apatheticmagpie.bsky.social, Lukas Fittl, @pavlogolub.bsky.social and myself. #pgconfeu #postgres

I wrote a new piece yesterday, called "Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob", about my escalating rage at AI-generated text. It includes a framework for thinking about when AI involvement is fine -- just another tool -- and when it lands as a violation. charity.wtf/p/confession...

We're having an in-person event! Join us on September 24th to discuss Postgres 19 and celebrate PostgreSQL's 30th birthday with Elizabeth Christensen and Lukas Fittl! Details and RSVP below: www.meetup.com/postgresql-1...

Welcome to pg_walviz: #PostgreSQL WAL segment visualizer: bdrouvot.github.io/2026/08/13/w...

We've posted a video of Keiko Oda and Lukas Fittl's talk How pg_query rewrites, deparses & formats any valid Postgres query https://youtu.be/5Av... #postgresql #PGConfdev

Gave a talk today at #PGData2026 on #Postgres plan management and monitoring. Some exciting changes coming to Postgres 19, and pg_stat_plans (plan statistics) now supports the new release. Full slides from the talk: resources.pganalyze.com/pganalyze_PG...

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

This is excellent, one of my favorite long-form pieces on agentic engineering - includes several non-obvious ways in which leaning on coding agents can catch you out

Thank you to @pganalyze for sponsoring pgconf.dev 2026! 🐘❤️ Sponsors make this conference possible. The venue, the hallway conversations, the community that gathers every year. We couldn't do it without them. See you in Vancouver! 🇨🇦

New chapter for Agentic Engineering Patterns: I tried to distill key details of how coding agents work under the hood that are most useful to understand in order to use them effectively simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

Your weekend watch is “Postgres New Extension Party: pg_stat_plans” with Lukas Fittl: www.youtube.com/watch?v=26co... #PostgreSQL #postgres

PGConf.dev 2026 schedule is live! We have a packed program this year. And we'll continue to add Community Discussion Sessions to Tuesday through April. https://2026.pgconf....

The Wikimedia Foundation’s chief technology and product officer explains how she helps manage one of the most visited sites in the world in the age of generative AI.

🎉Early Bird Registration is NOW OPEN for PG DATA 2026! Early Bird Tickets: Just $30 (first 100 registrations) Student Early Bird Tickets: Only $20 (first 50 students) 🔗Register now: www.eventzilla.net/e/pg-data-20... #PGDATA2026 #PostgreSQL #EarlyBird #TechConference

Tracking Plan Shapes with Lukas Fittl of pganalyze #pgconfeu #postgresql #database #riga

Check out the interview with Platinum sponsor pganalyze just posted at https://2025.pgconf....! #postgres #pgconfeu #riga #opensource #database

Tom stamped PG 18. Just a few more days for the official release.... git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgre...

We received reports of a phishing campaign targeting crates​.io users. Do not click on links asking to authenticate to protect your account. More information: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/12/c...

Reminder: code review is not "to catch mistakes", it is a tool for understanding to limit bus/lottery factor first and foremost. When code is written (if you're lucky) by one human, having the second human abdicate their judgment to the machine is actively harmful to your team's code understanding.

New small blog post "Measuring SELECT ... FOR UPDATE Latency in #PostgreSQL" > Are queries slow because they’re waiting to acquire locks, or because they’re taking a long time to find the actual rows? :) benoittgt.github.io/blog/postgre...

New longform @inkandswitch.com essay! 📜 Malleable Software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps by me, @joshuahhh.com, @pvh.ca and @seaofclouds.com inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea... It's about why people need agency over their software tools, and how to make that happen.

👁️ Watch Lukas Fittl at #PosetteConf Livestream 1 as he explores best practices for tuning slow Postgres queries. ⁉️ posetteconf.com lukas.fittl.com #postgresql #databases #OpenSource #analytics

We’re delighted to announce pganalyze as a Gold sponsor for PGConf NYC 2025! pganalyze.com @pganalyze #postgres #conference

Awesome post: Root Cause Analysis: PostgreSQL MultiXact member exhaustion incidents (May 2025) metronome.com/blog/root-ca...

Voting for unconference sessions here on Day 4 of #PGConfdev had some predictable winners (e.g. scaling PG development, multithreaded #PostgreSQL) & a few surprises too. And now the collaboration begins!

Live now at #PGConfdev in Montreal Lukas Fittl is on stage, diving into “Tracking plan shapes over time with Plan IDs & a new pg_stat_plans”—discover how core plan‑ID tracking, partition‑aware metrics, and an extensible pg_stat_plans can revolutionize your #PostgreSQL query analy

Nice explanation of the asynchronous I/O work that has been happening for Postgres: pganalyze.com/blog/postgre... Also interesting to see poor little effective_io_concurrency become a lot more useful! #postgres #postgresql #planetpg

Our CFP is open through May 25th! But don’t delay, send us your talk proposal today! 2025.pgconf.nyc/callforpapers/ @PostgreSQL #postgres #conference

🚨 The RailsConf 2025 schedule is now LIVE! This will be the FINAL RailsConf—a landmark event celebrating the past, present, and future of Rails. See what's in store... 👀 railsconf.org/schedule/

Over the last few weeks I've been incrementally merging infrastructure for AIO into postgres. Just now I finally merged the first actual user of AIO ("streaming reads" now can use AIO). It's been a long long road. I've been, with a lot of help along the way, working on this since some time in 2019.

🎶 "Best practices for tuning #PostgresQL queries" will be presented by Lukas Fittl @PosetteConf 2025 (Livestream 1 on Tue Jun 10th @ 11:00am PDT (UTC-7)). 🐘 Find out more: posetteconf.com/speakers/luk... #postgres #databases #OpenSource #community

Wrote a bit about an interesting find lately www.shayon.dev/post/2025/75...

The program is up and tickets are live at www.hytradboi.com/2025/#program. I'll keep updating this thread as the last 10 talks hit camera-ready.