11 Security Issues | Scaling Postgres 417

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new Postgres releases that patch eleven security issues, a new pgbouncer release patching four security issues, making JSON queryable, and issues with views.

Content Discussed

• PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23 Released!
• Postgres May 2026 Security Update: 11 CVEs, All Versions Affected
• PgBouncer 1.25.2 released
• 2026-05-08 - PgBouncer 1.25.2 - “Human touch with fresh twist in title race full of uncertainties”
• PgQue
• Making JSONB More Queryable with Generated Columns
• Strong views on PostgreSQL VIEWs
• The wal_level You Set Is Not the wal_level You Get
• A Field Guide to Alternative Storage Engines for PostgreSQL
• Eight Bytes Is the Easy Part
• CNPG Recipe 24 - Migrating from Crunchy PGO to PostgreSQL 18 with CloudNativePG
• No Compiler Required: Writing SQL-Only Postgres Extensions
• Everyone gets faster writes: We turned off FPW's in Neon
• From MemSQL to HorizonDB, an engineer's journey with Adam Prout
• How TLA+ Caught a Silent Data Divergence Bug in Postgres’s pg_rewind
• pg_lake vs Lakebase: Two Very Different Things Called “Postgres + Lakehouse”
• Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want
• Twenty Years in pgcrypto
• The Maintainer Is Not the Owner
• The Monday Elephant #4: Caching PostgreSQL Query Results
• Tracing PostgreSQL Using eBPF and Hardware Breakpoints
• Two projects, one mission - hackorum and pginbox join forces
• How Relational Complexity Crushes Real-Time Dashboards
• PostgreSQL 19: Dynamically adjust the I/O worker pool
• PostgreSQL 19: pg_waldump can now read from archives
• Prairie Postgres May meetup: the Mythical data Warehouse
• All Your GUCs in a Row: backslash_quote
• All Your GUCs in a Row: backend_flush_after
• All Your GUCs in a Row: autovacuum_worker_slots
• All Your GUCs in a Row: autovacuum_work_mem
• All Your GUCs in a Row: autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor and autovacuum_vacuum_threshold
• All Your GUCs in a Row: autovacuum_vacuum_max_threshold
• All Your GUCs in a Row: autovacuum_vacuum_insert_scale_factor and autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold
• SSL in PostgreSQL
• Contributions for week 18, 2026
• What’s New in pg_clickhouse
• pg_statviz 1.0 released with AI-powered analysis
• pgEdge Control Plane Adds Supporting Services and Preview of Systemd Support
• What We Think About When We Think About Benchmarking
• ParadeDB is Officially on Render
• The Path to Data Sovereignty: CYBERTEC and SUSE Unite for Open Source
• Supabase Is Now an Official ChatGPT App
• New in pganalyze: Server Groups and Cluster-Wide Query Performance
• Migrating Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to Amazon Aurora using seeded logical replication
• Amazon Aurora DSQL connections: Drivers, strings, and best practices
• Query billion-scale vectors with SQL: Integrating Amazon S3 Vectors and Aurora PostgreSQL

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