Postgres news edition 2026.35
Posted on Sa 29 August 2026 in Blog
As you may have seen, since spinning out the Postgres news, I wasn't able to post as regularly as I wished. Therefore, there are some articles in my backlog, and I thought it would be a good idea to share some of those in this edition.
In the "Meetup-Collection" are some of those articles in my backlogs regarding community events. There may be a focus to community-related stuff in this edition ;-) But there are other interesting articles as well.
Meetup-Collection
Cary Huang wrote about COSCUP and the Postgres presence there. Postgres had a dedicated track at COSCUP 2026 and with Bruce Momjian a great speaker and well-known expert in the PostgreSQL community. Some of the pictures shared in the article brought back some beautiful memories of the lovely city of Taipei.
PostgreSQL in Taipei: Connecting Taiwan to the Global PostgreSQL Community (COSCUP 2026)
Hettie Dombrovskaya wrote about Prairie Postgres July Meetup. She mentioned that this time they had two short presentations. As always, the talks are on YouTube.
Prairie Postgres July Meetup: Proudly Sourced at Midwest!
- An article by Laurenz Albe, where he shares his Swiss PGDay experience: Impressions from the Swiss PGDay(s) 2026
- Pavlo Golub published an unlogged vide: Swiss PgDay 2026 [UNLOGGED]
- Hettie Dombrovskaya has also written a recap about PG DATA 2026: PG DATA 2026 recap, and looking forward to PG DATA 2027
- Devrim Gunduz shared some insights from the first Postgres Istanbul Meeting: Inaugural PostgreSQL Istanbul Meetup was a blast!
- Jimmy Angelakos did a recap of their Edinburgh meetup: PostgresEDI July 2026 Meetup — Public Speaking, AI Compliance
Postgres Certificates and pgcounf.eu
Cornelia Biacsics published an article about the journey from an idea to the first exam. This exam will take place in Valencia during the community day of pgconf.eu: Building the OAPE PostgreSQL Certification
Mayuresh Bagayatkar wrote about his experience on the talk selection committee for pgconf.eu: EXPLAIN ANALYZE the PGConf.EU CFP
Postgres without PgBouncer?
Brandur wrote about the usage of connection pooling by the cloud providers. More or less all of the cloud providers are using connection pooling to improve their services. And almost all of them are using PgBouncer. AWS is using their in-house RDS Proxy.
We are using PgBouncer too, but I guess it is a quite obvious choice.
Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
Connection pooling with PgDog
Lev Kokotov has written an article where he compares PgDog with RDS Proxy.
One thing he mentions is the difference in handling transactions that are using the SET statement.
Locks and migrations
Alexey Evlampiev has written about locks in Postgres and how migrations can cause long-running queries.