New Backup Tool | Scaling Postgres 423

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a new backup tool called pg_hardstorage by Cybertech, bottomless storage & ColdFront, monitoring checkpoints and tracking statistics.

Content Discussed

• pg_hardstorage
• Introducing pg_hardstorage: A New Community-Driven Approach to PostgreSQL Backup and Recovery
• The Long Road to Bottomless Postgres
• Introducing ColdFront: Seamlessly Uniting OLTP, Analytics and AI Workloads on PostgreSQL
• Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Logically Sequenced
• Happiness Hint: Alarm on Checkpoint Time
• pg_stats: How Postgres Internal Stats Work
• It's Not Magic, It's Method
• Heterogeneous Graphs in SQL/PGQ on PostgreSQL 19
• POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 Talks
• Looking Ahead to Postgres 19
• waxsql: Wax Fruit for Your Query Planner
• Some more thoughts on random_page_cost
• Optimising Polymorphic Associations in PostgreSQL
• cygnet: A small but fierce ORM
• MCP For PostgreSQL: Automated Health Checks & Performance Analysis
• What's New in pg_clickhouse v0.3.2: Postgres 19, TLS, Regex, and Memory
• Contributions for week 23 & 24, 2026
• PostgreSQL Berlin May 2026 Meetup
• Why Your PostgreSQL Partition Key Is Creating a Write Bottleneck
• Postgres Sorting at Scale Needs More Than ORDER BY
• What You’re Really Owning When You Self-Host TimescaleDB
• Self-Hosted TimescaleDB or Tiger Cloud: A Framework for the Decision
• When PostgreSQL Isn't the Right Fit: Recognizing Workloads That Need Different Architecture
• Stop Spending Hours on What Should Take Minutes: A DBA's Guide to EDB Postgres® AI’s Agentic Database Capabilities
• One Postgres cluster, many apps
• Automating cross-account refresh for Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB clusters
• Build a Spring Boot REST API with Amazon Aurora DSQL

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