3+ day, 48+ min ago   (1871+ words) We’re celebrating 30 years of Postgres. We took a moment to sit down with Tom Lane, one of the project’s main developers, to talk about the architectural bets that paid off, the chaos of the early days and what’s next for…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (576+ words) Every few months someone writes a clean, slightly stubborn essay that amounts to: what if we just used PostgreSQL for more of the architecture? Queues. Documents. Full text. Geospatial. Analytics adjacent to the app. Job state. Feature flags. The comment…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (245+ words) Postgres creator Michael Stonebraker reveals how Oracle’s 2010 buyout of MySQL triggered a massive developer migration, crowning PostgreSQL as the industry standard. In the early 2000s, MySQL was the undisputed darling of the Web 2.0 revolution. It powered the explosive early growth of…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (447+ words) The instinct that feels like investigation and is actually closer to sightseeing — plus the four categories …...

4+ week, 5+ hour ago   (144+ words) Why “Postgres” became the gold standard for correctness and power Introduction If MySQL is the practical, fast-moving records office, PostgreSQL …...