#PostgreSQL articles and events

Percona is a Bronze sponsor at AWS re:Invent, November 30-December 4 in Las Vegas. We’ll be on the Expo floor with the cloud community — talking open source dat...

Percona is a Silver sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, November 9-12 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Find us in the Solutions Showcase to talk database...

Percona is a Gold sponsor at PGConf Europe, October 20-23 in Valencia. We contribute to the PostgreSQL community year-round — this is where we catch up with con...

What’s the impact of TDE on performance? People usually quickly throw together a few graphs with basic measurements and treat that as a complete answer, but the...

Recently we noticed a LinkedIn post promoting open_pg_tde, a fork of our pg_tde, claiming to be more open. I looked at the repository, and have to disagree with...

Vacuum, or more precisely autovacuum, is the most important automatic maintenance task in PostgreSQL. It is key for performance, but also for long-term database...

Here I write about what I changed after the first launch: hybrid search, filters and counts on the search page, the widget layout, indexer hardening, and the Pe...

We often hear that open source is about people....

The Percona Community Slack is open — come hang out There’s a new place for the people behind the databases to actually talk to each other....

I’ll explain how I built the Postgres layer for semantic vector search on the Percona Community website: pgvector, chunks, two table modifications, the database...

Type “zero downtime database migration” into the site’s search bar and you’ll get articles and talks about database migration with minimal downtime, even if tho...

You’ve fixed something gnarly in production this year. You’ve migrated a database that nobody wanted to touch. You’ve built something on top of Percona Operator...

Events unfolded quickly over the course of a couple of weeks starting on 27 April 2026, when a message appeared on the pgBackRest project announcing: that the r...

Last week, Zsolt and I jumped on a call with someone who had been building something remarkably similar to what we had been working on, completely independently...

If you are using PostgreSQL in any capacity very likely this week has started for you with a bang. pgBackRest, one of the most known tools for PostgreSQL, prais...