pgrust Faster Than Postgres? | Scaling Postgres 426

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the progress of the Rust rewrite of Postgres called pgrust, more about the backup tool pg_hardstorage, beware listen / notify and how to fix bad SQL.

Content Discussed

• The four horsemen behind thousands of Postgres outages
• pgrust passes 100% of the Postgres regression tests
• How pgrust was built: four attempts to rewrite Postgres in Rust with AI
• Philosophy behind pg_hardstorage
• Architecture behind pg_hardstorage: The replication protocol
• LISTEN Carefully: How NOTIFY Can Trip Up Your Database
• LinkedIn Live: Fixing Bad SQL in PostgreSQL with Jimmy Angelakos
• How SQL/PGQ Rewrites to Joins on PostgreSQL 19
• How much do you really need to know about databases?
• The tests passed. The plan didn't.
• Making 768 servers look like 1
• COUNT(*) After a JOIN Counts Rows, Not Things
• The Version Number Is Not the Territory
• Postgres community events: isn't it time to tap the capabilities of the digital era?
• Upgrading PostgreSQL 9.6 to 17 with pg_upgrade
• Ever Run Into A PostgreSQL Query That You Can Figure Out What It Does??
• PostgreSQL, AI Governance, and the C.A.L.M. Platform Test
• Replacing pgAgent with pg_timetable: Part 2 - Installing pg_timetable as a service in Linux
• Contributions for week 26 & 27
• PostgresEDI July 2026 Meetup — Public Speaking, AI Compliance
• Swiss PgDay 2026 [UNLOGGED]
• When the Postgres query planner goes rogue
• How we scale PgBouncer in ClickHouse Managed Postgres
• Rebuild large indexes on Aurora PostgreSQL with Blue/Green Deployments

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