Peter Eisentraut

The most recent meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 WG3 “Database Languages” took place from the 15th to the 19th of June 2026 in Stockholm.

Making GROUP BY a bit easier to use is in my experience among the top three requested features in SQL.

It’s been a while since SQL:2023 was published, and work on the SQL standard continues.

Anecdotally, this might be the most requested feature in SQL: Allow some trailing commas.

I have been working recently on making various scanners and parsers in PostgreSQL thread-safe, and this article is a bit of a brain dump to record what I did, what the different steps were, because all of that was pretty difficult to piece together, and it

Let’s stipulate that PostgreSQL has grown significantly in popularity over the last 20 years.

Upgrades between PostgreSQL major versions are famously annoying.

I wrote recently about the performance of PostgreSQL when compiled with different compilers and optimization levels.

When the PostgreSQL project makes a release, the primary artifact of that is the publication of a source code tarball.

I have tested several times which compiler builds PostgreSQL the fastest.