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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 […]
Houston is the energy capital of the world. From upstream exploration and drilling to midstream pipeline operations and downstream refining, the Greater Houston area is home to thousands of oil and gas companies managing some of the most complex, data-intensive operations on the planet. In 2026, that data complexity is only growing — and PostgreSQL […]
PostgreSQL has long been the go-to open-source relational database for developers and DBAs who need reliability, extensibility, and SQL compliance. But something significant has been happening over the past two years: Postgres has quietly evolved into one of the most capable AI data platforms available — and the changes coming in late 2026 and into […]
If you’ve been following the AI landscape over the past few years, you already know that large language model (LLM) agents have moved well beyond the chatbot phase. In 2026, they plan, reason, execute multi-step workflows, and — critically — they need reliable, persistent data stores to do it. PostgreSQL has quietly become the backbone […]
Connection pooling is one of the fastest ways to fix a “slow” PostgreSQL-backed app without touching a single query. In 2026, most production stacks sit behind some mix of driver-level pooling, PgBouncer, and sometimes pgpool-II—but they’re not interchangeable. This post walks through how PostgreSQL handles connections, where pooling actually helps, and when you should reach […]
