Postgres news edition #1

Posted on Sa 20 Juni 2026 in Blog

As mentioned in the AI recap, I am experimenting with a new format. And I think Postgres deserves a more focused recap than the Weeknotes could offer.

For the first edition, we have a couple of interesting articles of the last two weeks. And I am happy to see that, despite all the money going to AI, Postgres related start-ups are able to secure funding.

Postgres 19

Postgres 19 is in the beta testing phase. A lot of people are already testing new features, and some are blogging about their favorites. I already mentioned a new feature in the Weeknotes, that is getting a lot of attention: SQL/PGQ and the possibility to run graph queries.

My Three Top PostgeSQL 19 Features by Stefanie Janine Stölting.

Postgres Conference reviews

I like to read reviews about conferences. It gives you some impression about the event.

Christoph Berg wrote about his experience at PGConf.dev 2026 in Vancouver, and it is a great writeup. He made me curious about the "key joins" SQL feature.

Richard Yen wrote about his experience at PGDay Boston. The keynote from Michale Stonebreaker sounds really interesting.

Durable

Microsoft open-sourced pg_durable, a new PostgreSQL extension that provides in-database durable execution.

TimescaleDB

Aleksander Roszig has written about Timescale and their compression algorithms. I am a huge fan of TimescaleDB and have written about it in the past: Podman Container Logs mit Fluent Bit, Postgres und TimescaleDB verarbeiten.

TimescaleDB Compression: Hypercore and Columnar Storage with up to 98% Ratio in PostgreSQL

Scaling

Andrew Atkinson wrote about Aura Frames and their way from outage in 2024 to a smooth Christmas in 2025.

From Christmas Outage to #1 App Store Ranking: An Aura Frames Postgres Scaling Retrospective

Xata

Xata has written about how they managed to make database branching faster and therefore cheaper.

A thousand Postgres branches for $1

Company News

Ardent

A while ago, I read the launch post on Hacker News, but it was not that kind of news I would highlight in the Weeknotes. But the first edition of the Postgres news edition is the place to feature Ardent.

Ardent is described as Database sandboxes for Agents. According to their website, it offers a fast cloning mechanism and the possibility that agents can test their work in seconds on even very large databases.

PgDog

PgDog announced their funding. They received $5.5M.

Our funding announcement