Postgres 19 Beta 4 Released! | Scaling Postgres 436

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss PG19 Beta 4, pgBouncer CVEs, managed provider security and transferring data to Clickhouse using physical replication.

Content Discussed

• PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 Released!
• PgBouncer 1.26.0 released - Fixes three CVEs
• Systemic Risks in the Managed PostgreSQL Industry: Extension Risks Are Real!
• Breaking the Postgres Superuser Guardrails: Attacking Security-Hardening Extensions
• ClickHouse Managed Postgres
• The Shadow Knows
• Being considerate of other people's time
• Ten years of Postgres logical replication
• The Call Is Coming From Inside the Session
• The architecture of Neki
• 25 years of contributing to Postgres with Peter Eisentraut
• Hacking Workshop for October 2026
• Postgres in Production Special Series: How to Query pg_stat_statements to Find Slow and Expensive Postgres Queries (Part 7)
• Knowing When Your Composite Index Earns Its Write Cost
• Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Epilogue
• pgBackRest and PostgreSQL failover: why archive_mode matters
• Forty Deletes Vanished From pg_stat_statements
• Your Agent Is Reading Someone Else's Tenant
• Major updates to pg_acm
• The Promise of Non-Volatile Memory
• Multi-tenant SaaS on PostgreSQL: six decisions
• Row-level security in PostgreSQL: where tenants leak
• Postgres Monitoring for SQL Server DBAs: Statistics and Logs 101
• PostgreSQL's Chinese Locale Messages Were Seven Years Stale. Not Anymore.
• Contributions for week 37
• pgColumnar 1.0-alpha4 released
• postgres.scot is live, August PostgresEDI meetup
• Postgres week in the Netherlands: PGDay Lowlands & Percona Live 2026
• Flexible Deployment: What Enterprise-Grade Self-Hosting Actually Demands
• Anatomy of a (Postgres) search engine
• TIN Postgres search is faster, better, and cheaper
• Announcing Native BM25 Ranking in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL
• How Meshtastic Metrics Exporter Turned Eight Prometheus Queries Into One with Tiger Data
• Blocking cutovers to save replication slots
• DBLab 4.2: clone upgrades, simplified install, retention, and more

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