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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 6h

We sustain PostgreSQL’s vitality by growing the community that builds it. In September twelve EDB engineers spent a week mastering coding standards, debugging, patch reviews, and documentation. The result: Real upstream contributions: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/barcelo...

Barcelona beginnings: onboarding new PostgreSQL contributors

PostgreSQL is at the core of what we do at EDB, and several people here work on PostgreSQL full-time. However becoming a contributor and being successful in your contributions is not an easy task.…

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 11h

Thursday October 23, Senior Migration Consultant at EDB, Raphael Salguero will talk about "Migrating to PostgreSQL: Strategies, Sovereignty, and Success" at PGConf EU. Floor Drees called him to talk about why people should join his session, and what else he's looking forward at the conference:

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 1d

Next week at PGConf Europe 2025, EDB engineers and organizers will lead sessions on everything from Kubernetes and AI to accessibility, observability, and open-source stewardship. It’s a snapshot of how Postgres is growing technically, socially, and globally ➡️ www.enterprisedb.com/blog/many-fu...

The Many Futures of Postgres: EDB at PGConf.EU 2025

EDB’s presence at PGConf.EU 2025 showcases how the community continues to evolve across people, platforms, and purpose. From Kubernetes and AI summits to sessions on accessibility, observability, and…

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 1d

Senior Staff SDE Craig Ringer writes about why and how Prometheus selects K8s targets to scrape: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/how-scr...

"While it's not good practice, sometimes it's necessary to have Prometheus connect to a metrics port that is not declared in the Pod's manifest as an explicit Port."

How to scrape an undeclared Port on a Pod with prometheus-operator

While it's not good practice, sometimes it's necessary to have Prometheus connect to a metrics port that is not declared in the Pod's manifest as an explicit Port. For example, the Pod may be managed by an operator that lacks an extensible PodTemplate.

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 2d

PGConf EU starts next week. Across the schedule, folks from EDB give talks that stretch from community health to AI architectures, from accessibility to observability. Together, their work traces how Postgres keeps expanding its meaning, not just its feature set: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/many-fu...

The Many Futures of Postgres: EDB at PGConf.EU 2025

EDB’s presence at PGConf.EU 2025 showcases how the community continues to evolve across people, platforms, and purpose. From Kubernetes and AI summits to sessions on accessibility, observability, and…

www.enterprisedb.com

EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 2d

For @talkingpostgres.com @clairegiordano.bsky.social talked to Global Solutions Architect @tchorix.bsky.social about his marvelous brain, and ability to make connections that help people understand complex systems: talkingpostgres.com/episodes/the...

Boriss wrote a blog too: dev.to/bmejias/how-...

How I Learned to Embrace my Chaotic Brain

More than a decade ago, I applied for a job in Brussels and part of the process was to pass a...

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 3d

In the process to test our auto-generated MCP tools, we discovered critical limitations. In a post on our blog Staff Software Engineer Charlie Zhang shares practical insights from running MCP tools with real AI Agents: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/buildin...

Building MCP Servers from Protobuf (Part4) - Insights from Running MCP Tools in Practice

In the process to test our auto-generated MCP tools, we discovered critical limitations. This article shares practical insights from running MCP tools with real AI Agents.

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 3d

Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) make database design visual and intuitive. In our latest blog, we walk through how to create a 1:1 relationship in pgAdmin 4’s ERD tool — linking entities like User and UserProfile for clean, structured data design: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/how-imp...

How to implement a one-to-one relation in pgAdmin 4 using the ERD tool

This blog explains how to implement one-to-one relation in pgAdmin 4 using the ERD tool

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 4d

Senior Software Engineer Finnick Huo published part 3 of his AI Agent Development and Optimization Series, where he focuses on a practical strategy for optimizing agent development.

Start reading with part 1: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/ai-agen...

AI Agent Development and Optimization Series (Part 1): Creating First Agent

This article shares one practical approach to understanding AI agent fundamentals through hands-on examples. While there's no single "correct" way to build agents, we'll explore a straightforward methodology that can help you grasp the core concepts and build a simple but functional agent from scratch.

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 7d

Attending Data Stack Conf in Sofia, Bulgaria this October? Join our engineers Devrim Gunduz, Danish Khan, and Karthik Dulam for their sessions on #PostgreSQL extensions, PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, and MLOPs & data transformation with Airflow: datastackconf.com#complete-age...

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 7d

The 11th edish' of the EDB Engineering Newsletter is out, and it's jampacked! Lots of blogs from our #PostgreSQL 18 patch authors and contributors, the chaotic story of the mystical seahorse emoji, and more nerdiness: edbeng.substack.com/p/edb-engine...

EDB Engineering Newsletter #11

Each release of PostgreSQL is a really big deal for us, so you’ll forgive us if there is quite a lot to talk about on the topic in this edition!

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 8d

EDB Global Solution Architect Boriss Mejias will be on the "Talking Postgres" podcast today, hosted by Claire Giordano from Microsoft. You can join live at 17:00 UTC (19:00 CEST, 10:00am PT) by joining the Discord: aka.ms/open-source-...

Talking Postgres, with Claire Giordano

Talking Postgres is a podcast for developers who love Postgres. Guests join Claire Giordano each month to discuss the human side of PostgreSQL, databases, and open source.

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 8d

At Cloud Native Denmark today? We had lots of great conversations yesterday following our "PostgreSQL on Kubernetes AMA" prompt. Some about (restoring & promoting) replica clusters, some about migrating to #PostgreSQL from Oracle, and we got to meet with several @cloudnativepg.bsky.social users!

EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 9d

In London tonight? Our Senior Product Manager Simon Notley will give a talk about "Measuring query latency the hard way: an adventure in impractical Postgres monitoring" at the #PostgreSQL meetup.

For terrible/silly use of tech, and math-stuff, join: www.meetup.com/london-postg...

PostgreSQL Query Latency & Transaction Isolation, Tue, Oct 7, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

We're excited to be back for our 4th event of 2025 and pleased to say this event is being supported by Cockroach Labs. The event will be taking a look at measuring query latency the hard way and a practical story of serializable isolation.

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 10d

At Cloud Native Denmark this week? Come say hi at our booth, we're running @cloudnativepg.bsky.social demos basically non-stop, and there's stuff to win as well 🐘 💐 ⚽ (the emojis will make sense when you show up, promised)!

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 10d

One of the headlining features of PostgreSQL 18 is virtual generated columns, which our Chief Architect Peter Eisentraut worked on. He tells the engaging story of that feature on the EDB blog: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/journey... #PostgreSQL #PG18

The journey to virtual generated columns

For some reason, when I started out on this project, I decided to start with virtual generated columns. I think on balance that might have appeared to be the most requested kind, and maybe I also thought it was the easiest to implement first. I was wrong!

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PostgreSQL Conference Europe @pgconf.eu · 10d

Check out the interview with Gold sponsor EDB (@edbpostgres.bsky.social) just posted at https://2025.pgconf....!

#postgres #pgconfeu #ri##postgreso##pgconfeua##riga

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 13d

In Norway for @cloudnativebergen.dev this October 27-28? Make sure you join Gabriele Quaresima's CloudNativePG 101 session for an introduction to this operator for #PostgreSQL, a popular CNCF Sandbox project: 2025.cloudnativebergen.dev/speaker/gabr... @cloudnativepg.bsky.social

Gabriele Quaresima - CloudNativePG 101

The talk is an introduction on features and behaviours of CloudNativePG, the Kubernetes operator that covers the full lifecycle of a highly available Postgre...

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 13d

Signed up for P99 Conf - the virtual event on all things performance? We're setting an alarm for Simon Notley's session "Measuring Query Latency the Hard Way: An Adventure in Impractical Postgres Monitoring" on October 23. Find times here: www.p99conf.io/agenda/ @scylladb.com

P99 Conf Agenda

P99 CONF is two days of keynotes, technical deep dives, and lively conversations on all things performance. Join us online Oct 23-24, 2024!

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 14d

Joining @allthingsopen.bsky.social? Consider Bruce Momjian's session "Databases in the AI Trenches" for an exploration of the advances that fueled AI usage explosion, including multi-dimensional vectors, text embeddings, semantic search, transformers, and RAG: 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/dat...

Bruce Momjian • All Things Open 2025

The largest open source / web / tech conference of the U.S. East Coast

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 14d

PostgreSQL 18 introduces native OAuth2 authentication, and EDB Principal Software Engineer Guang Yi Xu walks you it in a 3-part blog series. A must-read for teams planning PG18 upgrades or integrating Postgres with enterprise identity platforms. Start here ➡️

Preview PostgreSQL 18’s OAuth2 Authentication (1) - Explore How it Works

PostgreSQL 18

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 15d

This September twelve EDB colleagues started their journey to becoming #PostgreSQL developers. We'll follow them and their patches as they progress: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/barcelo...

Barcelona beginnings: onboarding new PostgreSQL contributors

PostgreSQL is at the core of what we do at EDB, and several people here work on PostgreSQL full-time. However becoming a contributor and being successful in your contributions is not an easy task.…

www.enterprisedb.com

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 17d

We had a great time at @pgdayna.org! The slides for our lightning talks live here: www.enterprisedb.com/event/pgday-...

With (that) business out of the way, here are some quick pictures with a VIP: the Vesuvio vulcano. We'll be back soon for (fried) pizza 🍕 Thanks for the hospitality, @pgdba.org!

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 20d

PostgreSQL 18 ships with support for OAuth 2.0. Jacob Champion, Principal Software Engineer at EDB, posted the first proof-of-concept for this feature back in 2021. He shares the journey (and some spicy opinions) on the blog: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/develop...

On Developing OAuth

Some thoughts on the history and development process behind the new OAuth support in PostgreSQL 18, and some hopes and dreams for the future.

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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 21d

Our Perspectives on PostgreSQL 18 series spotlights the people behind the release. Here, Jacob Champion talks about the 4 year path to PostgreSQL’s new OAuth feature and how EDB makes room for the long, collaborative timelines that open source demands. Watch in full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQy...

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