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Databases: Postgres News and Releases, on Imperative to Relational
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PostgreSQL ☛ pgEdge Announces CloudNativePG Integration, Simplifying Postgres on Kubernetes
New Container Images and Helm Chart Enable Seamless Deployment of pgEdge with Industry-Leading Kubernetes Operator
Alexandria, VA, November 5, 2025 — pgEdge, the leading open source enterprise Postgres company, today announced the availability of pgEdge Containers on Kubernetes built for compatibility with CloudNativePG, along with an updated pgEdge Helm chart. These releases make it easier than ever to deploy and operate pgEdge Enterprise Postgres and pgEdge Distributed Postgres on Kubernetes, leveraging the advanced maturity and community adoption of the CloudNativePG operator.
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PostgreSQL ☛ CloudNativePG 1.28.0 RC1 Released!
The CloudNativePG Community is thrilled to announce the first release candidate of CloudNativePG 1.28! This preview release provides an opportunity to explore new features and enhancements before the final version is officially launched. While refinements may still occur, here’s a look at what’s new.
Quorum-Based Failover Promoted to Stable
The quorum-based failover feature, introduced experimentally in 1.27, has been promoted to a stable Hey Hi (AI) This data-driven failover mechanism is now configured via the
spec.postgresql.synchronous.failoverQuorumfield, graduating from the previousalpha.cnpg.io/failoverQuorumannotation. This enhances failover safety and data durability for high-availability clusters. -
PostgreSQL ☛ Releasing Isok 1.2.0 -- a PostgreSQL extension to assist with data cleanup and query based data integrity management
The Meme Factory, Inc., is proud to announce the 1.2.0 release of ISOK.
Isok is PostgreSQL extension to assist with data cleanup and query based data integrity management.
Discover problematic data patterns, track them, and manage them. Manage issue resolution, which may involve accepting questionable data, unchanged. Report not only the existence of particular data patterns, but also report changes to values of previously accepted data. With this feature Isok acts like a "soft trigger", accepting some questionable rows but not others found by the same query.
Useful for "zero code required" batch-based data validation and data cleanup management. Most useful when review is required to determine whether a questionable data pattern should be allowed to remain in a
With this release all of Isok is production ready. The core Isok code has been in production use for over a decade. The enhanced feature set is now fully tested. Although patches and other improvements will of course be considered, Isok is now feature-complete.
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PostgreSQL ☛ PgBouncer 1.25.0 released
PgBouncer 1.25.0 has been released. This release contains a number of new features along with a variety of improvements and bug fixes. Highlights are: [...]
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[Old] Frederick J Ross ☛ Imperative to relational
Databases occupy a weird position in the growth of a software engineer.
The young engineer spends a lot of effort getting good at expressing their intent in terms of loops and conditionals and organizing that into functions. They’re finally develop some fluency, and then they’re faced with a database. Perhaps for a while they dabble around the edges, with just enough knowledge to do a simple query and insert single rows. Then at some point they have to take the dive.