Postgres 18 just shipped, and as always, it’s available in preview on Neon right away. You can try it right now on Neon’s Free plan, no credit card or setup required. New Features in Postgres 18 Postgres 18 comes with a ton of other exciting updates around performance, flexibilit...

Elephantshark helps you monitor, understand and troubleshoot Postgres network traffic that’s Postgres servers, clients, drivers and ORMs talking to Postgres servers, proxies and poolers. Elephantshark sits between the two parties in a Postgres protocol exchange, forwarding messag...

You’ve heard this many times before – in order to keep your Postgres database working smoothly, you need to have proper index planning. Too few indexes, and your query performance suffers. Misestimated row counts can also trick the planner into poor choices, and if you’re not usi...

Postgres is loved not just for what it is, but for what it can become its extension system lets you transform your database into a full text search engine, a geospatial powerhouse, or a vector store for embeddings – all without switching tools. With many thousands of active datab...

For years, we’ve built elaborate scaffolding around our databases message queues to broadcast changes, cron jobs to sync schemas, webhooks to notify downstream systems. We needed this scaffolding because Postgres was “just” a database, a place to store rows and run queries. The r...

“Timing is everything.” Some say that’s a quote from Shakespeare, but imho, the true bards of time are the 52 contributors to the pg_cron extension. The concept being pg_cron is simple run scheduled jobs directly within Postgres using familiar cron syntax. The simplicity belies t...