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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 high...
February 26 #PostgreSQL #Opensource #pg_alastair #Community
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 ...
February 25 #PostgreSQL #Opensource #pg_jan #pg_alastair
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...
February 18 #PostgreSQL #Opensource #pg_jan #pg_stat_monitor
This is a recap of Percona at preFosdem and Fosdem!...
February 9 #Percona #PostgreSQL #Community #Events
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 p...
February 4 #Percona #PostgreSQL #Community #Events
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 chan...
February 2 #Percona #PostgreSQL #Community #Mailing Lists
Percona had a strong presence at FOSDEM 2026, taking place January 31 – February 1, 2026, at the ULB Solbosch Campus in Brussels, Belgium....
January 30 #Event #opensource #sponsorship #Cloud Native
There’s a lot of discussion about comparing Kubernetes operators for Postgres, but what about how Postgres operators compare to operators for other databases?...
January 27 #Community #Events #MySQL #PostgreSQL
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...
January 19 #PostgreSQL #Opensource #pg_zsolt #OIDC
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 cust...
December 19, 2025 #PostgreSQL #Opensource #pg_jan #pg_stat_monitor
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 ec...
December 17, 2025 #PostgreSQL #Opensource #pg_jan #pg_oidc_validator
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 parti...
December 8, 2025 #Community #Events #MySQL #PostgreSQL
Percona.Connect London 2025 brought the open-source database community together for a half-day of learning and collaboration. The event focused on providing pra...
December 2, 2025 #Community #Event Recap #Open Source #MySQL
Back in October, before PGConf.EU, I explained the issues impacting the prolonged wait for TDE in PostgreSQL 18. Explanations were needed as users were buzzing ...
November 28, 2025 #PostgreSQL #Opensource #pg_jan #pg_stat_monitor
In the previous blog post about the topic, OAuth, OIDC and validators, we discussed basic terminologies to understand the differences between the protocols and ...
November 17, 2025 #PostgreSQL #Opensource #pg_zsolt #OIDC