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Backups are the operation every team postpones until the day it needs one. On Amazon RDS and Aurora, the cloud takes snapshots for you — but “the cloud does it” is not a recovery plan. Snapshots fail. Restores time out. Permissions get forgotten. If you have not actually restored a backup this quarter, you do […]
JSONB is one of PostgreSQL’s most popular features — it lets you store flexible, schema-less documents in a relational database. But the moment your JSONB table grows past a few thousand rows, unindexed queries start to crawl. The good news: PostgreSQL gives you several indexing strategies that keep JSONB fast without giving up flexibility. In […]
Every Houston team hits the same wall eventually: a query that used to return in milliseconds now takes 30 seconds, and production is waiting. Before you buy more RAM, spin up another replica, or shard your database, spend five minutes reading the query plan. In my years triaging slow queries, the fix is visible in […]
It’s a packed Monday in the Postgres world. The Postgres Summit US 2026 talk schedule is officially live, four ecosystem projects shipped updates in the past week — including a pgAdmin 4 security release that patches seven CVEs and pgBackRest 2.59 with PostgreSQL 19 support — and the AI-agent era got its own managed Postgres […]
Vector search has moved from exotic to table stakes. pgvector is bundled into Amazon RDS and Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and countless self-managed clusters — and the benchmark posts keep coming: 10,000 queries per second! 50x faster than brute force! The New Stack recently published a sharp critique of the genre […]
Major version upgrades on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Aurora PostgreSQL are the rare database operation that AWS deliberately keeps manual. There is a good reason: each major release can carry breaking changes, and AWS wants a human to sign off before the database switches formats. For Houston teams running energy trading, logistics, and healthcare […]
MySQL and PostgreSQL are the two most widely used open source relational databases, and the comparison keeps coming up — in benchmarks, in conference talks, and in migration tickets. Recent head-to-head tests continue to show PostgreSQL pulling ahead on advanced query features, JSON handling, and indexing flexibility. If your team has been considering a move, […]
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has announced PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2, released July 16, 2026, with native SQL property-graph support, application-time (temporal) table operations, and a wave of performance and security changes. The second beta of version 19 is a feature preview ahead of general availability, which the project targets for September/October 2026. For teams […]
Houston does not have much use for decorative databases. This region runs on terminals, treatment rooms, grid assets, field crews, machine telemetry, maintenance queues, research pipelines, and public-service workflows. The systems behind that work need transactions, flexible data modeling, geospatial awareness, failover, observability, and security at the same time. That is still where PostgreSQL earns […]
If you operate upstream assets in the Greater Houston area, you understand the data volume problem: thousands of sensors generating 5,000–10,000 data points per second across wells, compressors, SCADA systems, separators, and field infrastructure. Traditional relational databases buckle under that load. Time-series databases designed for financial markets don’t speak the language of oil and gas […]
