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ClickHouse shipped a Postgres extension. The analytics vendor just conceded the front door.

pg_clickhouse pushes analytics from Postgres into ClickHouse via a foreign data wrapper. What pushes down, what doesn't, and when two engines beat one.

27 June 2026·11 min read

Postgres 19 lets you control the query planner. It spent 20 years refusing.

12 min read

PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 ships pg_plan_advice, a sanctioned way to stabilize and override query plans after two decades of refusing optimizer hints.

9 June 2026·12 min read

Postgres 18 stopped reading one block at a time

8 min read

Postgres 18 ships true async I/O. Cold sequential scans 3x faster - but only if you flip the switch, and only on the workloads that actually use it.

19 May 2026·8 min read