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The future is Postgres (Interview)

1 hour 46 minutes Posted Oct 28, 2026 at 3:00 pm.

This week on Changelog

Sponsor: Coder.com

Craig Kerstiens is back!

Python vs Ruby, Postgres vs MySQL

Oracle, Heroku, funding, and mailing-list governance

Extensions: boring core, innovation in user land

PostGIS and pg_lake's twelve extensions

OLTP vs OLAP and the evil of ETL

DuckDB, Parquet, and Iceberg explained

Postgres as a data platform runtime

Postgres 19! Biggest release since JSONB.

Autovacuum, graph queries, GROUP BY ALL

Sponsor: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon

AI contributions and Postgres maintainers

DBAgeddon: The coming shortage of DBAs

Rewriting Postgres in Rust and memory safety

How Postgres gets battle tested

Responsible disclosure and open source security

AI models, cybersecurity guardrails, and identity

Sponsor: Fingerprint

Sponsor: WorkOS

Predictions and getting started with pg_lake

Snowflake's Postgres bet and database mirroring

Learning Postgres via mailing lists and commitfests

Supabase, PlanetScale, and the new Postgres crowd

Closing thoughts and stuff

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Craig Kerstiens returns to talk about the ever-expanding world of Postgres: a deliberately boring core, a thriving extension ecosystem, and pg_lake bringing DuckDB and Iceberg into the mix. We dig into the pain of ETL, what Craig is watching in Postgres 19, the impact of AI on open source maintainers, and why the database still has plenty of room to grow.

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