Half as Fast on Linux 7 | Scaling Postgres 412

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how Postgres may be half as fast on the new Linux 7 kernel, PostgresBench, what is missing in Postgres and WAL to distribute data.

Content Discussed

• AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy
• PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services
• What’s Missing in Postgres?
• WAL as a Data Distribution Layer
• Don't let AI touch your production database
• What is a Collation, and Why is My Data Corrupt?
• PAX: The Storage Engine Strikes Back
• Schemas in PostgreSQL and Oracle: what is the difference?
• pg_column_size(): What you see is not what you get
• A Conversation with Paul Masurel, Creator of Tantivy
• Lift the Elephant
• pgEdge MCP Server for Postgres Is Now GA. Here’s Why That Matters
• Do You Need to Tune Postgres Vacuum?
• Using the pgEdge MCP Server with a Distributed PostgreSQL Cluster
• pg_clickhouse 0.1.10
• The 1 GB Limit That Breaks pg_prewarm at Scale
• pgcollection 2.0: Integer Keys, Range Deletes, and Oracle Parity
• AI at the Edge, Truth in Postgres
• Contributions for week 13, 2026
• PostgreSQL logical replication: How to replicate only the data that you need
• The Best Time to Migrate Was at 10M Rows. The Second Best Time Is Now.
• Read Replicas Don't Solve Write Bottlenecks
• Upgrading the IIoT Performance Envelope: How Hardware Affects IIoT Workloads
• Surviving the Performance Cliff of Disk-Bound Data Surviving the Performance Cliff of Disk-Bound Data
• Working with identity columns and sequences in Aurora DSQL
• AI Agents Know About Supabase. They Don't Always Use It Right.
• Custom OIDC Providers for Supabase Auth
• Diagnosing and fixing production errors with Sentry and Neon MCP

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