February 2024 Citus Open Source Newsletter

✍ Deep dive into the Postgres 16 query planner/optimizer

David Rowley’s post covers 10 of the query planner/optimizer improvements in PG16, including code blocks and comparisons of query plan output between PG15 & PG16.

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📣 Don’t wait! CFP for POSETTE is open…

until Apr 7th. Submit your proposal all about what you do with the world’s most advanced database

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✍ The azure_ai extension to Azure Database for PostgreSQL, definition and demo

What you need to know about this demo of the new azure_ai extension to Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server.

Read Claire’s post ⟶

🎙️ Path To Citus Con EP13—Wed Mar 6th

Arda Aytekin will join Pino & Claire to talk about spinning up on PostgreSQL & AI. It’s sure to be a fascinating episode.

Mark your calendar ⟶

🎤 Patroni, partitioning, & sharding—oh my!

Come to Nordic PGDay to hear Alexander Kukushkin give a step-by-step Patroni cooking guide, and Claire Giordano talk about partitioning & sharding in Postgres.

🎤 Claire Giordano to give lightning talk in Paris

Are you a new Postgres speaker? Come see “Fighting the Butterflies—giving your first Postgres conference talk” at pgDay Paris.

Get your ticket to pgDay Paris ⟶

✍ It always is about the why—highlights from Ep12 of Path To Citus Con

Highlights from Derk van Veen’s talk with Claire Giordano & Pino de Candia all about his transition from a Java developer to a Postgres specialist.

Read Ari’s post ⟶

🗓 Come see us at PGDay Chicago

Come hear all about being a PG newbie, lessons from developing extensions with Rust & PGRX, and get a grand overview of Postgres extensions—oh, and come to our booth for some socks!

Tickets available here ⟶

🎤 Will you be at SCaLE 21x Thu Mar 14th?

Krishnakumar (KK) Ravi will speak about the internals of Postgres memory management. There will be demos and some info on work in progress in this area.

Attend KK’s talk ⟶

🗓 Inaugural PGConf.dev conference

Lots of folks from Microsoft will be at the first PGConf.dev event in Vancouver in May—2 on the organizing team, 5 talks (technical & community), and 1 panel. Come find us.

📣 ICYMI: Citus Con has a new name!

POSETTE is the nickname for our 3rd annual virtual event. Find out what POSETTE stands for and what inspired the new name.

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