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The open source extension for distributed #PostgreSQL. Part of @microsoft's @AzureCosmosDB team. GitHub ⭐️ appreciated! https://nitter.cf/t.co/wlMTbLQZGH

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📣Citus 14.0 open source release is out with support for #PostgreSQL 18! 🎉 Check out the blog post for details on distributed PG18 with Citus 14, such as AIO, skip-scan, uuidv7(), OAuth, RETURNING OLD/NEW, temporal constraints, and more. citusdata.com/blog/2026/02/1…
Dark, starry night–themed graphic with the text “Citus 14 is here with support for Postgres 18.” On the right, a green flagpole displays three flags: the top flag with the Citus logo, a middle flag with the number “14,” and a bottom flag labeled “PG18.”

ALT Dark, starry night–themed graphic with the text “Citus 14 is here with support for Postgres 18.” On the right, a green flagpole displays three flags: the top flag with the Citus logo, a middle flag with the number “14,” and a bottom flag labeled “PG18.”

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Join us on YouTube for the Citus 13 release party! 🎉 Happening Wed 12 Mar @ 10am PDT | 1pm EDT | 6pm CET. Demos, news & good conversation. 📰👋, Several of the engineers that built this release of the Citus #PostgreSQL extension will be there. youtube.com/live/DrCu8SX2nDM…

Citus 13.0 Release Party – Fall in Love With Distributed Postgres

You are invited to the Citus 13.0 Release Party, livestreamed on Yo...

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🎉It's time to celebrate! Citus 13 has launched. A few of our #PostgreSQL engineers want to tell you all about it. There will be demos. 🖥️ Save the date! aka.ms/citus-release-party-1…
A promotional banner for the Citus 13 Release Party, featuring a space theme. The banner includes the text: 'Save the date - March 12, 2025' and 'Citus 13 Release Party.' Event details mention a livestream on March 12, 2025, at 10 AM PDT, 1 PM EDT, and 6 PM CEST. A QR code and URL (aka.ms/citus-release-party-13-0) are included for more information. The illustration features an elephant mascot dressed as an astronaut, standing on a blue and white rocket labeled 'PG 17,' waving a flag with the PostgreSQL elephant logo and the number 13. The background is dark blue with stars and abstract shapes."

ALT A promotional banner for the Citus 13 Release Party, featuring a space theme. The banner includes the text: 'Save the date - March 12, 2025' and 'Citus 13 Release Party.' Event details mention a livestream on March 12, 2025, at 10 AM PDT, 1 PM EDT, and 6 PM CEST. A QR code and URL (aka.ms/citus-release-party-13-0) are included for more information. The illustration features an elephant mascot dressed as an astronaut, standing on a blue and white rocket labeled 'PG 17,' waving a flag with the PostgreSQL elephant logo and the number 13. The background is dark blue with stars and abstract shapes."

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Citus 13.0 open source release is out with support for #PostgreSQL 17! 🎉 Check out the blog post for details on distributed PG17.2 with Citus 13, such as JSON_TABLE() in distributed queries, optimizer improvements, and more 🐘 citusdata.com/blog/2025/02/0…

Distribute PostgreSQL 17 with Citus 13

Postgres 17 is now supported by Citus. This post gives an overview of the 13.0 release of the Citus open source extension, with Postgres 17 support plus various improvements and bug fixes.

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New episode of the #TalkingPostgres podcast 🎙️ Affan Dar joined to share what’s it like to lead #PostgreSQL engineering on @AzureDBPostgres & also our PG open source work. Affan is so down to earth, it's a good listen! 🐘 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes… 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=yLdT5E1Q…
Bio pic for podcast guest Affan Dar, along with the podcast square thumbnail for Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, and Affan's name in big letters.

ALT Bio pic for podcast guest Affan Dar, along with the podcast square thumbnail for Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, and Affan's name in big letters.

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New episode of the #TalkingPostgres podcast Rails & PG expert @andatki joined to talk about helping Rails developers learn Postgres with his new book "High performance PostgreSQL for Rails" 🧀 Featuring a cheese factory 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes… 📺 youtu.be/lvDJr164sKg
Bio pic of Talking Postgres podcast guest Andrew Atkinson from Episode 21 where we discussed high performance PostgreSQL for Rails (and how and why he wrote his new book)

ALT Bio pic of Talking Postgres podcast guest Andrew Atkinson from Episode 21 where we discussed high performance PostgreSQL for Rails (and how and why he wrote his new book)

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Happening now at #PGConfEU @pgconfeu in Athens, @nbyavuz & @MengTangmu from the Postgres team @Microsoft are sharing the stage to give their PostgreSQL 17 talk titled “Streaming I/O and vectored I/O” which paves the way for AIO in Postgres in the future
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One of my teammates—engineer @senagng who works on the #PostgreSQL team at Microsoft (and who I just met for the first time in-person ❤️)—is on stage at @pgconfeu #PGConfEU giving a talk titled “Smooth Sailing: How We Tackled PostgreSQL Migration Challenges from CentOS to Ubuntu”
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And now my much-admired teammate @AndresFreundTec from the #PostgreSQL team at Microsoft is on stage at @pgconfeu to talk about NUMA (non uniform memory access) vs. PostgreSQL. Why? Because Moore’s law is dead and everyone is building chiplet architectures #PGConfEU
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Are you at @pgconfeu 2024 happening this week in Athens? This beloved #PGConfEU conference keeps getting bigger—this year with 779 attendees & a whole lot of learning happening. Come say hello 👋 at the @Microsoft booth & tell us what your favorite part of #PostgreSQL is?
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New episode of the #TalkingPostgres podcast #PostgreSQL luminary Tom Lane joined me to discuss how he got started as a developer & in Postgres. Featuring pinball machines, JPEGs on usenet, code on Mars, & pgsql-hackers 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes… 📺 aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-Ep20-…
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Check out this playlist of the #PostgreSQL Ecosystem talks from #PosetteConf 2024 and learn about SaaS on Rails, benchmarking, profiling, PostGIS, scaling, connection poolers, & extensions 🐘 aka.ms/posette-2024-postgres…
This graphic is a promotional poster for the "POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024," featuring eight speakers who will discuss the Postgres ecosystem. The poster has a vibrant pink and purple background with a stylized elephant, symbolizing Postgres, at the center. The text announces "8 Postgres ecosystem talks" in bold letters. The speakers, Andrew Atkinson, David Wheeler, Deepak Mahto, Federico Campoli, Jelte Fennema-Nio, Lotte Felius, Marco Slot, and Regina Obe, are displayed in circular portraits along the top and bottom of the graphic.

ALT This graphic is a promotional poster for the "POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024," featuring eight speakers who will discuss the Postgres ecosystem. The poster has a vibrant pink and purple background with a stylized elephant, symbolizing Postgres, at the center. The text announces "8 Postgres ecosystem talks" in bold letters. The speakers, Andrew Atkinson, David Wheeler, Deepak Mahto, Federico Campoli, Jelte Fennema-Nio, Lotte Felius, Marco Slot, and Regina Obe, are displayed in circular portraits along the top and bottom of the graphic.

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Just left #PGConfNYC & I want to shout from the tall NYC rooftops to say thank you 🙏 to the @pgconfnyc organizers, talk selection team, speakers, & amazing people I met. So nice to see the 45% growth in attendees vs last year. Also: Gratitude 🙌 for my @Microsoft teammates who came to support the #PostgreSQL open source community (we were a Platinum sponsor ✅) & meet with @AzureDBPostgres customers too.
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New episode of #TalkingPostgres 🎙️ w/guest & Postgres developer @melanieplageman Melanie & I discuss becoming a Postgres committer, quitting her job, mentorship, asking for help, empathy, & the responsibililty of it all 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes… 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=X7Pr5c5K…
Bio pic of podcast guest Melanie Plageman along with name of podcast "Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano" & title of this episode: "Becoming a Postgres committer"

ALT Bio pic of podcast guest Melanie Plageman along with name of podcast "Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano" & title of this episode: "Becoming a Postgres committer"

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New episode of the #TalkingPostgres podcast (previously #PathToCitusCon) In Ep18, @davidrowley_pg & I talk about how David got his start as a developer & in #PostgreSQL. Starting from motorbikes 🏍️ & cheese factories 🧀 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes… 📺 aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-Ep18-…
A podcast episode promotional graphic for "Talking Postgres" featuring Claire Giordano. The episode is titled "EP: 18 - How I got started as a developer (& in Postgres)." The image is split into two sections: the left side displays a black-and-white close-up photo of a man with short hair and a slight beard, smiling at the camera. The right side has a magenta background with the "Talking Postgres" logo at the top, followed by the episode number and title in bold white text.

ALT A podcast episode promotional graphic for "Talking Postgres" featuring Claire Giordano. The episode is titled "EP: 18 - How I got started as a developer (& in Postgres)." The image is split into two sections: the left side displays a black-and-white close-up photo of a man with short hair and a slight beard, smiling at the camera. The right side has a magenta background with the "Talking Postgres" logo at the top, followed by the episode number and title in bold white text.

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Watch @mulander’s talk from #PosetteConf 2024 🐘 “From Postgres full text search to Retrieval Augmented Generative search” and learn how to employ recent developments in machine learning models into your #PostgreSQL applications 🤖 youtu.be/TI5tNC2XtPM?si=IuMA…
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Good news! The Citus open source website is up and running again. Thank you for your patience. citusdata.com/

Citus Data | Distributed Postgres. At any scale.

Citus gives you all the greatness of Postgres plus the superpowers of distributed tables. By distributing your data and queries, your application gets high performance—at any scale. The Citus...

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Thank you to those of you who reported that you could not get to the Citus open source project website (and the blog). We're working on getting it back online. ETA for the fix is by Thu morning PDT. Will give another update tomorrow/Wed. Apologies for the inconvenience.
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The latest episode of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast is Episode 17 with Pino de Candia as our guest (+ me as your host) on the topic of "Podcasting about Postgres" 🎙️ talkingpostgres.com/episodes…
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Latest episode of #TalkingPostgres podcast (formerly #PathToCitusCon) In this Ep17, I have a "meta" conversation with guest Pino de Candia on podcasting about Postgres—and shout-outs to a-ma-zing 🔥 past guests & other podcasts too 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes… 📺 aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-Ep17-…
Bio pic for guest on Ep17 of the Talking Postgres podcast, Pino de Candia, plus the Ep17 title "Podcasting about Postgres"

ALT Bio pic for guest on Ep17 of the Talking Postgres podcast, Pino de Candia, plus the Ep17 title "Podcasting about Postgres"

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