#PostgreSQL articles and events

Percona is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of Kubecon Europe 2026, one of the most important gatherings for the cloud native and open source ecosystem. The event will take place from March 23-26, 2026, a...

Percona is proud to sponsor PGConf India 2026 as a Gold Sponsor, taking place from March 11th to March 13th, 2026, at the Sheraton Grand Hotel at Brigade Gateway in Bengaluru, India....

Discover how Percona’s latest PostgreSQL Operator feature transforms database backups with Kubernetes VolumeSnapshots. Learn the setup, benefits such as near-instant snapshots and improved disaster re...

AI-driven pressure on open source maintainers, reviewers and, even, contributors, has been very much in the news lately. Nobody needs another set of edited highlights on the theme from me. For a Postg...

During FOSDEM I had a chance to join a presentation by Alexander Sosna of GitLab on the backup procedure he has followed with his team to decrease the downtime during major upgrades. I highly recommen...

In case you are awaiting the February PostgreSQL Community minor update released on plan on February 12 we want to make sure that our users and customers are up to date and aware of what to expect....

This is a recap of Percona at preFosdem and Fosdem!...

The following thoughts and comments are completely my personal opinion and do not reflect my employers thoughts or beliefs. If you don’t like anything in this post, reach out to me directly, so I can ...

Last year at pgconf.dev, there was a discussion about improving the user interface for the PostgreSQL hackers mailing list, which is the main communication channel for PostgreSQL core development. Bas...

There’s a lot of discussion about comparing Kubernetes operators for Postgres, but what about how Postgres operators compare to operators for other databases?...

We spent a long time, two blog posts to be specific, talking about OAuth/OIDC in theory. Now we’ll take a more practical look at the topic: how can we configure PostgreSQL with a popular open source i...

As the year comes to a close and many of us start slowing down before the winter holidays, I find myself reflecting on patterns I’ve seen repeat, both as a customer and as someone working closely with...

With PostgreSQL 18 introducing built-in OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication, tools like pg_oidc_validator have become an essential part of the ecosystem by enabling server-side verifica...

We’re excited to share that Peter Zaitsev, Founder of Percona, will present his talk “Why PostgreSQL Took the Crown from MySQL and What Lies Ahead.” After participating in Percona PGConf.EU in Riga, P...

Percona.Connect London 2025 brought the open-source database community together for a half-day of learning and collaboration. The event focused on providing practical, technical insights for DBAs, Dev...