Postgres year in review 2025

Nik and Michael discuss the events and trends they thought were most important in the Postgres ecosystem in 2025.

Here are some links to things they mentioned:

• Postgres 18 release notes https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html
• Our episode on Postgres 18 https://postgres.fm/episodes/postgres-18
• LWLock:LockManager benchmarks for Postgres 18 (blog post by Nik) https://postgres.ai/blog/20251009-postgres-marathon-2-005
• PostgreSQL bug tied to zero-day attack on US Treasury https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/postgresql_bug_treasury
• PgDog episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/pgdog
• Multigres episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/multigres
• Neki announcement https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-neki
• Our 100TB episode from 2024 https://postgres.fm/episodes/to-100tb-and-beyond
• PlanetScale for Postgres https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-for-postgres
• Oracle's MySQL job cuts https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/oracle_slammed_for_mysql_job
• Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/05/amazon-aurora-dsql-generally-available
• Announcing Azure HorizonDB https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-azure-horizondb/4469710
• Lessons from Replit and Tiger Data on Storage for Agentic Experimentation https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/lessons-replit-tiger-data-storage-agentic-experimentation
• Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 https://boringsql.com/posts/instant-database-clones
• turbopuffer episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/turbopuffer
• Crunchy joins Snowflake https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/crunchy-data-joins-snowflake
• Neon joins Databricks https://neon.com/blog/neon-and-databricks

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Postgres FM is produced by:

• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai

With credit to:

• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork