Introduction   PostgreSQL is a robust and highly scalable database system, but as applications grow in size and complexity, performance challenges can begin to emerge. Slow queries, high resource c...

Last week at PGConf.EU in Valencia, I gave a talk about the Postgres work being done at Microsoft (slides here). Getting ready for that talk, I kept noticing how much has changed in the Postgres team...

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...