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Azure auto-enrolled PostgreSQL 11, 12 and 13 servers in extended support on 1 August 2026 and bills from 1 September at $0.07 to $0.161 per vCore-hour. The upgrade escape hatch is narrower than it looks.
Amazon RDS added PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 to its Database Preview Environment on 18 August 2026. The extension table marks PostGIS and pg_hint_plan N/A on all three betas, and pg_plan_advice 1.0 ships instead.
Django 6.1 arrived on 5 August 2026 with query fetch modes that collapse the N+1 problem into two queries, database-level cascade deletes, and a database floor that now starts at PostgreSQL 15. From January 2028 every
PostgreSQL 14 reaches end of life on 12 November 2026. AWS starts Extended Support billing on 1 March 2027, Azure on 12 December 2026 and Google Cloud on 1 February 2027 - three different clocks, one upgrade plan.
PostgreSQL 14 gets its last community patch on 12 November 2026, and on Amazon RDS the paid clock starts 1 March 2027 at a published $0.100 per vCPU-hour. The real question is not whether to upgrade but which version
A senior engineer's 2026 comparison of Neon and Supabase: scale-to-zero economics, instant branching, built-in auth, real pricing in dollars, and which serverless Postgres fits your SaaS backend.
Four Postgres-native vector search options, one decision: compare pgvector, pgvectorscale, ParadeDB and Lantern on recall, latency, hybrid search and cost, plus the scale ceiling where a dedicated engine wins.
CloudNativePG, KubeBlocks, and Crunchy PGO all run production Postgres on Kubernetes, but they make different bets on HA, backups, and scope. Here is how they compare in 2026, with real config, and when a managed
CloudNativePG 1.30, released July 6, 2026, adds a DatabaseRole CRD for GitOps-friendly roles, a Lease-based primary election for safer failover, and three security fixes. Here is what changed, the config that matters
PostgreSQL 19 beta 2 landed on 16 July 2026 with online REPACK, native SQL/PGQ graph queries, self-scaling async I/O, parallel autovacuum and controllable query plans. Here are the five changes production teams should
Microsoft now runs two managed Postgres services on Azure. HorizonDB's preview limitations list decides most of these choices before any benchmark does, and one of those limits rules it out for Indian workloads entirely.
PostgreSQL 18 brings asynchronous I/O with up to 3x faster reads, time-ordered uuidv7, and RETURNING OLD/NEW. This 2026 guide covers io_method tuning, a uuidv4-to-uuidv7 migration, and the upgrade gotchas, from page
Most pgvector-versus-vector-database comparisons quote one vendor benchmark from April 2025 that ran no filtered queries and tested an extension most teams do not install. Here is what the primary sources actually
