Postgres year in review 2025

Nik and Michael discuss the events and trends they thought were most important in the Postgres ecosystem in 2025.

Here are some links to things they mentioned:
• Postgres 18 release notes postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html
• Our episode on Postgres 18 postgres.fm/episodes/postgres-18
• LWLock:LockManager benchmarks for Postgres 18 (blog post by Nik) postgres.ai/blog/20251009-postgres-marathon-2-…
• PostgreSQL bug tied to zero-day attack on US Treasury theregister.com/2025/02/14/postgresql_bug_trea…
• PgDog episode postgres.fm/episodes/pgdog
• Multigres episode postgres.fm/episodes/multigres
• Neki announcement planetscale.com/blog/announcing-neki
• Our 100TB episode from 2024 postgres.fm/episodes/to-100tb-and-beyond
• PlanetScale for Postgres planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-for-postgres
• Oracle's MySQL job cuts theregister.com/2025/09/11/oracle_slammed_for_…
• Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/05/ama…
• Announcing Azure HorizonDB techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgres…
• Lessons from Replit and Tiger Data on Storage for Agentic Experimentation tigerdata.com/blog/lessons-replit-tiger-data-s…
• Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 boringsql.com/posts/instant-database-clones
• turbopuffer episode postgres.fm/episodes/turbopuffer
• Crunchy joins Snowflake crunchydata.com/blog/crunchy-data-joins-snowfl…
• Neon joins Databricks neon.com/blog/neon-and-databricks

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What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, (postgres.fm/people) or by commenting on our Google doc (docs.google.com/document/d/1PNGSn_d0A7gTR4C0p6…)!

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Postgres FM is produced by:
• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard (pgmustard.com)
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai (postgres.ai)

With credit to:
• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork