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The database field is filled with too much nonsense and false marketing. Database Veteran helps you see through the fog, penetrate the confusion, and strike at the core and essence of the industry.

An entire generation of application developers has had their vision obscured by the cloud. Let us use hard data analysis and experience to clarify the value and traps of the public cloud rental model.

Your ability to ask questions—and your taste in what to ask—determines your position in the AI era. When answers become commodities, good questions become the new wealth. We are living in the moment this prophecy comes true.

Context window economics, the polyglot persistence problem, and the triumph of zero-glue architecture make PostgreSQL the database king of the AI era.

Tons of users running the official docker postgres image got burned during recent minor version upgrades. A friendly reminder: think twice before containerizing production databases.

PostgreSQL official repos cut off global mirror sync channels, open-source binaries supply disrupted, revealing the true colors of various database and cloud vendors.

The same forces that once led MongoDB and MySQL toward closure are now at work in the PostgreSQL ecosystem. The PG world needs a distribution that represents “software freedom” values.

Deleting images and running away - this isn’t about commercial closed-source issues, but supply cut problems that directly destroy years of accumulated community trust.

The 2025 SO global developer survey results are fresh out, and PostgreSQL has become the most popular, most loved, and most wanted database for the third consecutive year. Nothing can stop PostgreSQL from consolidating the entire database world!

Google recently launched a database MCP toolbox, perhaps the first production-ready solution.

PGDG cuts off FTP rsync sync channels, global mirror sites universally disconnected - this time they really strangled global users’ supply chain.