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PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 and Moreon Databases
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PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 Released!
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 18 is now available for download. This release contains previews of all features when PostgreSQL 18 is made generally available, though some details of the release can change during the beta period.
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LWN ☛ Fittl: Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
Lukas Fittl writes in detail
on the pganalyze blog about the asynchronous I/O capability coming with the
PostgreSQL 18 release.
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PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, and 13.21 Released!
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of PostgreSQL, including 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, and 13.21. This release fixes 1 security vulnerability and over 60 bugs reported over the last several months.
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Simon Willison ☛ SQLite CREATE TABLE: The DEFAULT clause
Posting this here because I hadn't previously noticed that this defaults to UTC, which is a useful detail. It's also a strong vote in favor of YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS as a string format for use with SQLite, which doesn't otherwise provide a formal datetime type.