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The Scott Shambaugh Situation Clarifies How Dumb We Are Acting

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ February 13, 2026 ⋅ 8 Comments

My personal blog here is dedicated to tech geek material, mostly about databases like postgres. I don’t get political, but at the moment I’m so irritated that I’m making the extraordinary exception to veer into the territory of flame-war opinionating… This relates to Postgres because Scott is a volunteer maintainer on an open source project … Continue reading →

Collation Torture Test versus Debian

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ May 22, 2025 ⋅ Leave a comment

Collation torture test results are finally finished and uploaded for Debian. https://github.com/ardentperf/glibc-unicode-sorting The test did not pick up any changes in en_US sort order for either Bullseye or Bookworm 🎉️ Buster has glibc 2.28 so it shows lots of changes – as expected. The postgres wiki had claimed that Jessie(8) to Stretch(9) upgrades were safe. … Continue reading →

Major Developments in Postgres Extension Discovery and Distribution

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ March 21, 2024 ⋅ Leave a comment

PostgreSQL “extensions” are a big part of what makes this database special. The developers building the core Postgres database are amazing. But many people don’t realize just how much of a “data platform” Postgres is (borrowing this phrase from something Craig Kerstiens recently posted online) and just how decentralized the development is for PostgreSQL’s capabilities. … Continue reading →

Seattle PostgreSQL Meetup This Thursday: New Location

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ June 18, 2019

I’m looking forward to the Seattle PostgreSQL User Group meetup this Thursday (June 20, 2019) at 5:30pm! We’re going to get an early sneak peek at what’s coming later this year in PostgreSQL’s next major release. The current velocity of development in this open source community is staggering and this is an exciting and valuable … Continue reading →

PostgresConf 2019 Summary

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ March 27, 2019 ⋅ 1 Comment

PostgresConf 2019 in New York City is a wrap! Now that I’ve had a few days to recover a little brain capacity, I think I’m ready to attempt a summary. I love conferences for the learning opportunities… inside of sessions and also outside of them. Being the largest PostgreSQL-centered conference in the United States, PostgresConf … Continue reading →