Postgres news edition #2

There are a lot of articles about Postgres 19 published at the moment. It seems like there is a big excitement about the upcoming Postgres 19 release.

We are already testing some upgrade paths. Just to be sure that we can roll out the upgrades when Postgres 19 is released.

Postgres 19

As mentioned the last time Postgres 19 is in the beta testing phase, and there are many articles about the new features.

New partition feature

Shaun Thomas published an interesting blog post about a new partition feature: SPLIT PARTITION and MERGE PARTITIONS. With this new feature it shouldbe easier to change partition rules. But there are some limitations.

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Split Personality

Sequences and Logical replication

Shaun Thomas wrote about challenges with sequences and logical replication. And what changes in Postgres 19.

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Logically Sequenced

SQL/PGQ

Hans-Jürgen Schönig published another article about SQL/PGQ.

Heterogeneous Graphs in SQL/PGQ on PostgreSQL 19

Feature overview

Craig Kerstiens published an overview of the new features in Postgres 19.

Looking Ahead to Postgres 19

Postgis and population data

A nice article shows how to use Postgis to validate data and create hexagons with normalised population data.

Armchair Transit with PostGIS: The Census & The Bestagons

Microsoft's contributions

Claire Giordano wrote her annual overview of Microsoft's contributions to Postgres. It seems like their contributions getting bigger and bigger every year.

What's new with Postgres at Microsoft, 2026 edition

Berlin Meetup

Andreas Scherbaum wrote about the May Meetup in Berlin.

PostgreSQL Berlin May 2026 Meetup

Postgres Internals

Richard Yen published an article about pg_stats and how the internal Postgres statistics work.

pg_stats: How Postgres Internal Stats Work

History of Postgres

The Reg published an article about the history of Postgres and some of the design decisions that shaped the database.

The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators

Postgres Release Monitor

• HypoPG 1.4.3 is out!
• New Postgres Language Server: postgres-lsp
• pg_qualstats 2.1.4 is out!
• pg_stat_kcache 2.3.2 is out!
• pgEdge Announces ColdFront for PostgreSQL, Seamlessly Uniting AI, Analytical and OLTP Workloads
• IvorySQL 5.4 Released - Based on PostgreSQL 18.4 with AI Skills
• pgtt v4.5 has been released
• What's New in pg_clickhouse v0.3.2: Postgres 19, TLS, Regex, and Memory
• pgsql_tweaks Version 1.0.4 Released
• Introducing pg_hardstorage: A New Community-Driven Approach to PostgreSQL Backup and Recovery