ANNOUNCE pig: The Postgres Extension Wizard
Enter Pig, a Go-based package manager built to tame Postgres and its ecosystem of 340+ extensions in one fell swoop.
weeklyfoo #68 / 2025-01-19postgres
📰 postgres
Announcing Multigres
Can Postgres replace Redis as a cache?
FerretDB
A truly Open Source MongoDB alternative - using postgres
weeklyfoo #18 / 2024-02-05ferretdbpostgres
Fuzzy Name Matching in Postgres
Get Excited About Postgres 18
Postgres 18 will be released in just a couple weeks! Here’s some details on the most important and exciting features.
weeklyfoo #103 / 2025-09-22postgres
My Backend Stack Is Just TypeScript + Postgres. Here’s Why That’s Enough
Most people overthink their backend way too early. You start building a new product and suddenly you’re researching Kafka, Redis, background workers, message queues, analytics pipelines, caching layers, and five microservices. But if you’re being honest, you probably don’t need most of that.
weeklyfoo #82 / 2025-04-28typescriptpostgres
Nightly Postgres Backups via GitHub Actions
On expressions' reordering in Postgres
Postgres for Everything (e/postgres)
How to reduce complexity and move faster? Just Postgres for everything.
weeklyfoo #63 / 2024-12-16postgres
Postgres is eating the database world
In fact, I only use postgresql if I need an SQL db (sometimes an SQLite)
weeklyfoo #25 / 2024-03-25sqlpostgres
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
When a NOTIFY query is issued during a transaction, it acquires a global lock on the entire database (ref) during the commit phase of the transaction, effectively serializing all commits. Under many concurrent writers, this results in immense load and major downtime.
weeklyfoo #93 / 2025-07-14postgres
Postgres password encryption without leaking credentials
PostgreSQL 17 Released!
PostgreSQL is Enough
PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2023
Transaction Isolation in Postgres, explained
Why I Started Using Postgres (And You Might Too)
A Microsoft SQL Server Expert starts using Postgres.
weeklyfoo #100 / 2025-09-01postgressqldatabase