Postgres

Evidence (20)

• 4The New Stack·10/8/2026product_launch
  How to Scale Postgres Without Leaving It

  The article explains that vanilla Postgres can become harder to manage as data volume, query load, and AI-agent activity increase, especially for time-series workloads. It highlights a webinar with Tiger Data’s Matty Stratton on extending Postgres with TimescaleDB to address scaling limits and common performance pain points.

• 7Hacker News·10/2/2026funding
  Supabase acquires Turso to build agent-focused database infrastructure

  Supabase is acquiring Turso to expand its database platform for AI agents that create large numbers of databases on demand. Supabase will keep focusing on Postgres, while Turso will continue SQLite work and help build new infrastructure for lightweight, scalable agent workloads.

• 8The New Stack·9/30/2026product_launch
  OpenClaw Enterprise brings agent governance to the enterprise

  OpenClaw, the open-source self-hosted AI agent platform, is moving into enterprise with OpenClaw Enterprise, a vendor-neutral control plane for managing persistent agents. The project is being developed in the open ahead of a 1.0 release, with features for isolated namespaces, permissions, configuration, and auditability, while core enterprise components are still unfinished.

• 6The New Stack·9/28/2026product_launch
  pgEdge launches Starfleet for branch-based Postgres environments

  pgEdge has introduced Starfleet, a cloud Postgres platform that gives each coding agent its own isolated database branch and supports deployment from hosted service to air-gapped on-premises setups. The product is designed to help teams move AI-generated prototypes toward production without exposing the same database environment to multiple agents or workflows.

• 4Hacker News·9/26/2026open_source
  Browser tool checks whether a Postgres migration is safe

  The item highlights safe-not-safe, a browser-based tool that parses PostgreSQL migrations and flags potentially unsafe changes. It uses libpg_query compiled to WebAssembly and supports checking statements such as ALTER TABLE, concurrent index creation, and foreign key validation.

• 6The New Stack·9/24/2026product_launch
  How Database Teams Could Manage 150,000 AI Agents

  The article argues that database administrators will increasingly supervise AI agents that handle provisioning, troubleshooting, and optimization work once done manually. It highlights the scale challenge of managing large fleets of agent-driven workloads and describes YugabyteDB AMP, an agentic multitenant PostgreSQL platform, as one approach to consolidating and automating those databases.

• 7Hacker News·9/19/2026product_launch
  TIN launches full-text search extension for Postgres

  TIN is a new full-text search extension for Postgres, announced as generally available for Postgres and Neki databases. The company says it supports boolean, phrase, span, fuzzy, wildcard, and regular-expression queries, along with BM25 ranking, transaction visibility, and concurrent updates.

• 7Hacker News·9/16/2026research
  4B Model Beats Postgres Query Plans on Join Queries

  The article describes an experiment that post-trained a small 4B open-weights model to generate Postgres query plans that outperform the database's default optimizer on join-heavy workloads. Using supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, the model reportedly achieved a 44.7% latency reduction across 113 queries and handled cases the initial model could not plan for.

• 2Hacker News·9/16/2026open_source
  Small programming tricks that improve productivity

  The post collects small, practical programming tricks that can save time in daily engineering work, such as fuzzy shell history search, SQL query inspection, and useful Git commands. It emphasizes that low-friction knowledge often has outsized value, especially when shared within teams to help with debugging, operations, and routine development tasks.

• 4Hacker News·9/16/2026research
  Learning Programming in the Age of LLMs

  Mark Seemann responds to a reader’s questions about learning programming and building software with large language models. The article argues that LLMs can speed up development but may also let people build systems they do not fully understand, raising concerns about maintainability, competence, and the impact on knowledge-work jobs.

• 5InfoQ·9/14/2026research
  Durable Workflows on Postgres Without an External Orchestrator

  The article explains how Postgres can act as both the durable state store and coordination layer for workflows, removing the need for a separate orchestrator. It highlights patterns such as SKIP LOCKED for concurrent processing, primary-key checkpoints for idempotency, leases for crash recovery, and persisting sleeps and human approvals in the database.

• 8Hacker News·9/10/2026product_launch
  PlanetScale launches Neki, a sharded Postgres system

  PlanetScale introduced Neki, a sharded Postgres offering designed to scale beyond a single machine. The system targets very high throughput and large data volumes, with claims of hundreds of millions of QPS and petabyte-scale storage.

• 7InfoQ·9/10/2026framework_update
  IETF Adds QUERY as a New HTTP Method

  The IETF published RFC 10008 in June 2026, defining QUERY as a new HTTP method for requests that include a body. QUERY is designed to support safe, cacheable, and idempotent queries with richer filters than GET allows, while avoiding some limitations of POST for API lookup operations.

• 4Hacker News·9/4/2026research
  Spacetime Explains How It Scales

  The article argues that scalability should be viewed across three separate dimensions: compute, storage, and networking. It uses Spacetime as an example to explain that while horizontal scaling of storage is relatively straightforward, general-purpose OLTP databases often struggle with contention and can incur high overhead under load.

• 7The New Stack·9/1/2026product_launch
  Agent-built apps make persistence the new hard problem

  The article argues that AI agents that can build, deploy, and maintain full applications create a new infrastructure challenge: keeping state durable while keeping compute ephemeral. Using Moonshot AI’s Kimi as a production example, it says the real issue is not performance but the economics of persistence across millions of mostly idle agent-created apps.

• 4Hacker News·8/27/2026research
  Software engineering is more than writing code

  The article argues that AI is good at generating code, but software engineering is mainly about making architecture and tradeoff decisions under real-world constraints. It uses examples like event processing, consistency, scaling, and team capacity to show that the same feature can require very different solutions depending on the business and infrastructure context.

• 5Hacker News·8/26/2026research
  RAG Can Start With Simple Full-Text Search

  The article argues that many retrieval-augmented generation systems are over-engineered and should begin with simpler approaches such as full-text search before adding embeddings or reranking. It outlines several retrieval recipes, including full-text search, agentic query rewriting, and hybrid search, with the choice driven by freshness, corpus churn, query patterns, scale, and team expertise.

• 5The New Stack·8/23/2026research
  Why real-time AI at scale is difficult

  The article argues that real-time AI systems often fail in production because of data pipeline issues rather than model quality. It highlights three common problems: tail latency under heavy concurrent load, stale features hurting accuracy, and vector indexes degrading over time without maintenance.

• 3Hacker News·8/19/2026research
  Why PostgreSQL Can Do Almost Everything

  The article argues that PostgreSQL is a versatile database that can serve many roles beyond traditional relational storage, including full-text search and document storage. It emphasizes PostgreSQL’s stability, rich feature set, and broad deployment options as reasons it can simplify infrastructure.

• 8Hacker News·8/17/2026framework_update
  DuckDB Previews v2.0 with Server Mode, VARIANT, and New Engine Features

  DuckDB has previewed version 2.0, codenamed Cyanoptera, which introduces a new SQL parser, a new default storage format, a reworked C API, and several breaking changes. The release also emphasizes DuckDB as a server, adding Quack-based client/server connectivity, CONNECT for remote execution, triggers, VARIANT enhancements, asynchronous I/O, and improved observability.