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Issue 646 - pgBackRest is no longer being maintained

pgBackRest is dead. Now what? | My DBA Notebook

https://mydbanotebook.org/posts/pgbackrest-is-dead.-now-what/

pgBackRest Is 'Dead': Now What? — The biggest Postgres story on social media is pgBackRest’s repo being archived and gaining a ‘notice of obsolescence’. David Steele hasn’t got the time to keep maintaining what is, for many shops, the de facto Postgres backup/restore/recovery tool. Lætitia does a great job of explaining the project’s significance, alternatives, and possible ways forward.

4 months ago

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Catch Postgres Bugs Before Your PRs Merge — Migrations, indexes, and query changes are easy to miss in review. Greptile reviews each PR with full repo context, flags real issues, and suggests fixes that match your team. Works with GitHub and GitLab.

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4 months ago

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/monitor-autovacuum-my-queries/

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/monitor-autovacuum-my-queries/

My Queries to Monitor Autovacuum — An experienced Postgres consultant shares his working set of queries for keeping autovacuum honest, including a "vacuum urgency" calculation, monitoring transaction ID wraparound risk, and keeping an eye on table bloat.

4 months ago

Parallel Autovacuum: It’s Not About The CPU

https://thebuild.com/blog/2026/04/28/parallel-autovacuum/

Parallel Autovacuum in Postgres 19: It's Not About the CPU — Learn about Postgres 19’s new autovacuum_max_parallel_workers and autovacuum_parallel_workers settings, and why parallel autovacuum primarily benefits tables with many or expensive indexes, rather than being a general CPU usage knob.

4 months ago

Understanding Bitmap Heap Scans in PostgreSQL

https://richyen.com/postgres/2026/04/27/bitmap_heap_scan.html

Understanding Bitmap Heap Scans in Postgres — A short explainer for a scan type that confuses everyone the first time it shows up in EXPLAIN. Understanding how they work can make execution plans much easier to interpret.

4 months ago

Databases Were Not Designed For This

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/defensive-databases/

🤖 Databases Were Not Designed for This — Databases largely respond to human-written, or at least human-considered, queries, but AI agents can violate this assumption. Arpit suggests things you can tweak to survive a new world of unexpected queries and client behavior.

4 months ago

Release v1.1.0 · timescale/pg_textsearch

https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch/releases/tag/v1.1.0

🔎  pg_textsearch 1.1: BM25 Ranked Text Search Extension — Say hello to concurrent inserts for higher write-path performance with update-heavy workloads, the ability to set a memory usage limit (and monitor said usage), and the ability to index text[], varchar[], and bpchar[] columns directly.

4 months ago