https://awide.tech Hardened PostgreSQL for mission-critical environments - product releases, security advisories, events, and engineering articles. en https://awide.tech/events/pgconf-dev-2026 https://awide.tech/events/pgconf-dev-2026 PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) is the primary annual gathering of PostgreSQL core developers, committers, and contributors. Held in Ottawa each spring, it shapes the direction of the project. Tue, 26 May 2026 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/events/nordic-pgday-2026 https://awide.tech/events/nordic-pgday-2026 Nordic PGDay 2026 comes to Oslo for a one-day community conference with technical sessions on PostgreSQL internals, operations, and the latest developments in the ecosystem. Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/news/postgresql-18-beta1 https://awide.tech/news/postgresql-18-beta1 PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 is now available. The release introduces OAuth 2.0 authentication, incremental backup improvements, and a redesigned connection slot management system. Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/news/postgresql-17-4-released https://awide.tech/news/postgresql-17-4-released The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released PostgreSQL 17.4, a minor update that includes bug fixes, security patches, and improvements to logical replication stability. Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/events/fosdem-pgday-2026 https://awide.tech/events/fosdem-pgday-2026 FOSDEM PGDay is a one-day community event held the day before FOSDEM, bringing together PostgreSQL developers and users from across Europe for a full day of technical talks. Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/news/postgresql-14-eol https://awide.tech/news/postgresql-14-eol PostgreSQL 14 will reach end of life on November 12, 2026. After that date it will no longer receive security fixes or bug fixes. Teams still running PG 14 should plan their upgrade now. Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/events/pgconf-japan-2025 https://awide.tech/events/pgconf-japan-2025 PostgreSQL Conference Japan 2025 gathered the Japanese and regional PostgreSQL community in Tokyo for a day of technical sessions, lightning talks, and contributor discussions. Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/events/pgconf-eu-2025 https://awide.tech/events/pgconf-eu-2025 PGConf.EU 2025 brought over 700 PostgreSQL professionals to Vienna for three days of talks, workshops, and hallway track discussions on everything from internals to large-scale deployments. Mon, 27 Oct 2025 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/events/pgday-uk-2025 https://awide.tech/events/pgday-uk-2025 PGDay UK 2025 returns to London for a full day of PostgreSQL talks covering performance tuning, high availability, logical replication, and community updates. Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/news/postgresql-12-eol https://awide.tech/news/postgresql-12-eol PostgreSQL 12 has reached end of life. No further security fixes or bug fixes will be released. Administrators running PostgreSQL 12 should plan an upgrade immediately. Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/news/pgvector-080-released https://awide.tech/news/pgvector-080-released pgvector 0.8.0 adds sparse vector support, improves HNSW index build performance, and introduces iterative index scans for better recall on filtered queries. Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/news/postgresql-13-beta1 https://awide.tech/news/postgresql-13-beta1 PostgreSQL 17 is now available. The major release brings vacuum memory improvements, up to 2× faster bulk loading, JSON_TABLE support, and incremental backup capability. Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-bootcamp-tel-aviv https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-bootcamp-tel-aviv The local Israeli PostgreSQL community organized the non-profit PostgreSQL Development Bootcamp in Tel Aviv — a hands-on intensive for engineers working with advanced PostgreSQL internals. Sat, 01 Apr 2023 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/pgday-israel-2022 https://awide.tech/blog/pgday-israel-2022 PGDay Israel 2022 — 6th Annual PostgreSQL Conference in Israel on October 20, 2022. A yearly non-profit event hosted and run by the PostgreSQL Israeli Community. Sat, 15 Oct 2022 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-how-to-detect-and-solve-checkpoints-ratio-issue https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-how-to-detect-and-solve-checkpoints-ratio-issue This topic describes how you can detect and solve PostgreSQL checkpoints ratio issues What happened? To detect checkpoints ratio issues, and have an ability to look in some historical metrics of this – ... Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-how-to-detect-and-solve-memory-availability-issues https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-how-to-detect-and-solve-memory-availability-issues This topic describes how you can detect and solve PostgreSQL memory availability issues. What happened? To detect memory availability issue on time, and have an ability to look in some historical metrics ... Mon, 12 Sep 2022 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/pgday-israel-2021 https://awide.tech/blog/pgday-israel-2021 5th Annual Online PostgreSQL Conference in Israel took place online at October 07, 2021. Here you can find the event program with lecture recordings. Sun, 17 Oct 2021 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/joins-using-like-or-why-postgresql-fts-is-a-powerful-alternative https://awide.tech/blog/joins-using-like-or-why-postgresql-fts-is-a-powerful-alternative Introduction In the scope of the migration project from Oracle to PostgreSQL, one of our clients’ DBA team faced a complicated performance issue. This issue seemed simple at first glance, but it took ... Mon, 26 Oct 2020 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/building-pg-checksums-utility-for-postgresql-10-and-earlier-versions-on-centos-7 https://awide.tech/blog/building-pg-checksums-utility-for-postgresql-10-and-earlier-versions-on-centos-7 Since version 9.3 PostgreSQL introduced the ability of checksums. The documentation says “Use checksums on data pages to help detect corruption by the I/O system that would otherwise be silent”. So, PostgreSQL’s developers ... Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/how-we-manage-connection-permissions-from-pgbouncer-to-postgresql-s https://awide.tech/blog/how-we-manage-connection-permissions-from-pgbouncer-to-postgresql-s Our company actively uses pgBouncer. We almost always recommend its use to our customers. This is a really cool connection pooling solution for PostgreSQL. In addition, pgBouncer allows as to flexibly manage connections ... Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/strange-cost-estimation-for-foreign-tables https://awide.tech/blog/strange-cost-estimation-for-foreign-tables Introduction As you know postgres_fdw extension using to access data stored in external PostgreSQL servers. postgres_fdw provides has more transparent and standards-compliant syntax for accessing remote tables than dblink. Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/gist-index-and-siglen https://awide.tech/blog/gist-index-and-siglen This post is based on the talk by Oleg Bartunov on pgConf2018.RU It is imperative that a user be able to construct new access methods to provide efficient access to instances of nontraditional base ... Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-log-shipping-or-when-it-s-advisable https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-log-shipping-or-when-it-s-advisable Introduction Recently we were approached by one of our clients with an interesting task.#nbsp;The fact is that he has a large database, around 1.5 TB.#nbsp;He also has several standbys from this primary server. Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/installing-ora2pg-and-migration-cost-assessment https://awide.tech/blog/installing-ora2pg-and-migration-cost-assessment OVERVIEW To migrate the data from Oracle to Postgres, we using the utility Ora2Pg.#nbsp;Ora2Pg is a free tool used to migrate an Oracle or MySQL database to a PostgreSQL compatible schema. It connects Tue, 05 Dec 2017 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-101-966-9510-9415-9320-and-9224-released https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-101-966-9510-9415-9320-and-9224-released Corrective updates are available for all supported PostgreSQL branches: 10.1, 9.6.6, 9.5.10, 9.4.15, 9.3.20 and 9.2.24, which contain a batch of bug fixes, including fixes for problems that could lead to data corruption... Thu, 09 Nov 2017 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-and-collation-what-changed-in-postgresql-10 https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-and-collation-what-changed-in-postgresql-10 Introduction Not so long ago, one of our customers turned to us with#nbsp;problem. The fact is that PostgreSQL refused to use the index on the text field if you try to make a ... Thu, 12 Oct 2017 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/what-s-new-in-postgresql-10-part-5-authentication-and-row-level-security https://awide.tech/blog/what-s-new-in-postgresql-10-part-5-authentication-and-row-level-security Introduction Historically, PostgreSQL used a single encryption method. It’s not-so-safe md5 algorithm. In 10 version provided support for new authentication method SCRAM-SHA-256 for password negotiation and storage. Also in 9.6 or earlier version ... Sun, 27 Aug 2017 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/what-s-new-in-postgresql-10-part-4-replication-and-scaling https://awide.tech/blog/what-s-new-in-postgresql-10-part-4-replication-and-scaling Agenda Quorum Commit for Synchronous Replication Connection “Failover” in libpq Traceable Commit Physical Replication Temporary replication slot Quorum Commit for Synchronous Replication PostgreSQL 10 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/what-s-new-in-postgresql-10-part-3-native-logical-replication https://awide.tech/blog/what-s-new-in-postgresql-10-part-3-native-logical-replication Introduction Before 10 version PostgreSQL was supported only Physical Streaming Replication (PSR). PSR is based on the Write-Ahead Log (WAL), which means that all changes are written to the binary transaction log and sent ... Sun, 06 Aug 2017 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/what-s-new-in-postgresql-10-part-2-native-partitioning https://awide.tech/blog/what-s-new-in-postgresql-10-part-2-native-partitioning Overview Before version 10, PostgreSQL used inheritance tables as a method for physically partitioning a large table. The inheritance table creates multiple child tables for the parent table and maintains the consistency of ... Mon, 31 Jul 2017 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/what-s-new-in-postgresql-10-part-1-additional-parallelism https://awide.tech/blog/what-s-new-in-postgresql-10-part-1-additional-parallelism Introduction All of you know that a new PostgreSQL 10 will soon appear. With this article we begin a series of articles about the most important changes that we believe have appeared in ... Fri, 21 Jul 2017 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-and-rabbitmq https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-and-rabbitmq Introduction I want to share the experience of using PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ. The matter is that recently we had a question of guaranteed, transactional delivery of messages from DB to the queue of ... Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/separation-of-the-load-on-postgresql-disks https://awide.tech/blog/separation-of-the-load-on-postgresql-disks Problem statement Most often, problems with the database are associated with slow disks or with a high load on them. In this moment we don’t have guarantees that all our servers have fast disks. ... Wed, 05 Jul 2017 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/huge-pages-and-postgresql https://awide.tech/blog/huge-pages-and-postgresql Introduction Hugepages is a mechanism that allows the Linux kernel to utilize the multiple page size capabilities of modern hardware architectures. Linux uses pages as the basic unit of memory, where physical memory ... Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/sampling-in-postgresql https://awide.tech/blog/sampling-in-postgresql Sometimes there are situations when you need to select a certain number of random entries from the table. Since version 9.5, this feature has appeared. Using TABLESAMPLE, you can not select all the data from the table, but only some of them. Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-962-release-notes-in-hebrew https://awide.tech/blog/postgresql-962-release-notes-in-hebrew As part of PostgreSQL documentation translation into Hebrew project I’m proud to announce about PostgreSQL 9.6.2 Release Notes translation process completion. The Hebrew Notes are available on link. Comments are welcome. I will continue ... Sat, 25 Mar 2017 21:00:00 GMT https://awide.tech/blog/the-first-pgday-in-israel https://awide.tech/blog/the-first-pgday-in-israel pgDay Israel 2017, the first event of its kind in Israel fully dedicated to PostgreSQL, was held at Google Campus Tel Aviv on March 2. The event was run by PostgreSQL Israel Community . Sat, 18 Mar 2017 21:00:00 GMT