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Saturday, October 17, 2026 · 6 stories, curated & summarized — click any story for the source.
📌 Summary 84% of surveyed Rails developers use PostgreSQL in production While PostgreSQL is less popular than Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server today, the gap is narrowing Win a signed copy of High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails, see below for details The 2026 version of the Ruby on Rails Community Survey results are now live. Two things caught my eye: just how much PostgreSQL is in…
I am very pleased to announce that, after a long hiatus, Perseid 0.1.0, a set of utilities for versioning PostgreSQL database schemas, has been released. Perseid 0.1.0 is available from: Codeberg Git repository: https://codeberg.org/perseas/perseid Documentation is available at: https://perseas.codeberg.page/perseid/ Perseid is the successor to Pyrseas .
I’m pleased to announce the first public release of pglifecycle , an open source schema management tool for PostgreSQL. pglifecycle keeps your database schema in version control as structured YAML, with one file for each table, view, function, role, and other object.
At Percona Live Europe 2026, Dmitry Lenev and I presented JavaScript in My Database? Over My Dead Query, the story of component_js_lang, the V8-based JavaScript engine for Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.
We’re continuing our review of the March CommitFest for PostgreSQL 19. This second article in the series covers the changes related to our DBA1 and DBA2 courses.
Sooner or later, someone on the team reads about write skew. It is an unsettling read: two transactions, each correct on its own, each looking at data the other is about to change, both committing, and the database ending up in a state that no ordering of the two could have produced.
