This blog was authored by Sven Hubert, Associate Director IT Operations at Wolters Kluwer, Oliver Heimlich, Lead Product Software Engineer at Wolters Kluwer, Volker Krebs, DevOps Engineer at Wolters ...

By: Maxim Lukiyanov, PhD, Principal Software Engineer Every feature in PostgreSQL has a story. Before a line of code lands, it's proposed, debated, reviewed and often rewritten on the pgsql-hackers...

Understanding WAL in PostgreSQL  PostgreSQL uses Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) to guarantee durability and consistency. Every change made to the database is first recorded in WAL before being written ...

Save the date for POSETTE 2027 Mark your calendar for March 30–31, 2027, when POSETTE: An Event for Postgres returns for its sixth year. Organized by the PostgreSQL team at Microsoft in partn...

I ran a experiment on my own Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server: deliberately bloat a table, build a monitoring job that would catch it, and then reclaim the space while keeping the applic...

Photo gallery: Microsoft team at Postgres Summit US 2026 Postgres Summit US 2026 was a conference of connections: between database internals and the infrastructure underneath them, between AI ...

Coauthored by Jared Meade and Teneil Lawrence For teams running transaction-intensive applications, database performance is rarely about a single specification. More vCores can help, but compute is...

In Smarter Storage for Azure HorizonDB, we described how HorizonDB moves durability, replication, checkpointing, and recovery out of PostgreSQL and into a purpose-built storage layer. The compute nod...

A support engineer hits a fault. Somebody solved the same fault two years ago, wrote down what fixed it, and closed the ticket. The engineer searches, finds nothing, and works it out from scratch. Th...

Coding agents can write SQL, troubleshoot applications, and reason about data. Useful database work starts with your schema and environment context.  We are pleased to announce that Microsoft has o...