pgBackRest is dead. Now what? https://lobste.rs/s/dp3tdn #databases
https://mydbanotebook.org/posts/pgbackrest-is-dead.-now-what/
databases
Introducing DoomBench - Can Your Data Stack Run DOOM? https://lobste.rs/s/nkafrw #databases #performance
https://cedardb.com/blog/doombench/
SQL’s ORDER BY Has Come a Long Way https://lobste.rs/s/zp6fnc #databases
https://modern-sql.com/blog/2026-05/order-by-history
PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10 closing 11 CVEs https://lobste.rs/s/pegkgv #databases
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-184-1710-1614-1518-and-1423-released-3297/
A Conversation with Paul Masurel, Creator of Tantivy https://lobste.rs/s/9eg0hs #databases
https://www.paradedb.com/blog/tantivy-interview
Things you didn't know about indexes by @chrt https://lobste.rs/s/otzxqs #databases
https://jon.chrt.dev/2026/04/15/things-you-didnt-know-about-indexes.html
pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast https://lobste.rs/s/ytjtjg #databases #testing
https://brandur.org/fragments/pgtestdb
Xata: Open source Postgres platform with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero https://lobste.rs/s/8disen #databases
https://github.com/xataio/xata
Add CONCURRENTLY option to REPACK (PostgreSQL) https://lobste.rs/s/th1r1c #databases
https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/28d534e2ae0ac888b5460f977a10cd9bb017ef98
What are important data systems problems, ignored by research? (2024) https://lobste.rs/s/xmio29 #databases
http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2024/12/what-are-important-data-systems.html
Redis and the Cost of Ambition https://lobste.rs/s/oznirn #databases
https://charlesleifer.com/blog/redis-and-the-cost-of-ambition/
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol https://lobste.rs/s/9dalas #databases
https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol.html
Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra https://lobste.rs/s/bcau52 #databases #java #person
https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/04/26/branimir-lambov-from-ibm-on-cassandra.html
pGenie – SQL-first code generator for PostgreSQL (Haskell, Rust, Java) https://lobste.rs/s/thfvnd #databases #haskell #java #rust
https://pgenie.io/
Zero-Copy Pages in Rust: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Lifetimes https://lobste.rs/s/57picr #databases #linux #rust
https://redixhumayun.github.io/databases/2026/04/14/zero-copy-pages-in-rust.html
PgQue: Two Snapshots and a Diff https://lobste.rs/s/kb4wwp #databases #performance
https://thebuild.com/blog/2026/05/03/pgque-two-snapshots-and-a-diff/
We built Postgres compatibility for our database and made it reusable libraries by @sunng https://lobste.rs/s/gugkgj #databases
https://greptime.com/blogs/2026-04-01-greptimedb-postgresql-compatibility
From Christmas Outage to #1 App Store Ranking: An Aura Frames Postgres Scaling Retrospective https://lobste.rs/s/emkdck #databases #scaling
https://andyatkinson.com/postgresql-rds-scaling-aws-christmas-day-peak
What are skiplists good for? https://lobste.rs/s/tpje23 #databases #performance
https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/
Aurora DSQL: The Adjudicator https://lobste.rs/s/ekjk8e #databases #distributed
https://marc-bowes.com/dsql-adjudicator.html
The Open Geospatial Python Series by Qiusheng Wu is the featured bundle of ebooks 📚 on Leanpub!
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Potential Consequences of Using Postgres as a Job Queue https://lobste.rs/s/o1p8ee #databases #performance
http://richyen.com/postgres/2026/05/04/postgres_job_queue.html
SQL: Incorrect by Construction https://lobste.rs/s/wehmq6 #databases
https://chreke.com/posts/sql-incorrect-by-construction
SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_` https://lobste.rs/s/tttexr #databases
https://avi.im/blag/2026/etilqs/