This is excellent, one of my favorite long-form pieces on agentic engineering - includes several non-obvious ways in which leaning on coding agents can catch you out

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New chapter for Agentic Engineering Patterns: I tried to distill key details of how coding agents work under the hood that are most useful to understand in order to use them effectively simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

Postgres new extension party: pg_stat_plans Recorded 9/11/25 Lukas from pganalyze has been working on a new extension called pg_stat_plans to capture plan statistics inside Postgres. Similar to how pg_stat_statements tracks queries, the new…

Your weekend watch is “Postgres New Extension Party: pg_stat_plans” with Lukas Fittl:

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Tracking Plan Shapes with Lukas Fittl of pganalyze

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Tom stamped PG 18. Just a few more days for the official release....

git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgre...

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Reminder: code review is not "to catch mistakes", it is a tool for understanding to limit bus/lottery factor first and foremost. When code is written (if you're lucky) by one human, having the second human abdicate their judgment to the machine is actively harmful to your team's code understanding.

New small blog post

"Measuring SELECT ... FOR UPDATE Latency in #PostgreSQL"

> Are queries slow because they’re waiting to acquire locks, or because they’re taking a long time to find the actual rows? :)

benoittgt.github.io/blog/postgre...

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Thanks! Some more stabilizing still to be done, but I'm excited about the premise of getting this type of data more widely available. Plan IDs are also a potential building block to improve the plan management story for Postgres.

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Awesome post:

Root Cause Analysis: PostgreSQL MultiXact member exhaustion incidents (May 2025)

metronome.com/blog/root-ca...

Voting for unconference sessions here on Day 4 of #PGConfdev had some predictable winners (e.g. scaling PG development, multithreaded #PostgreSQL) & a few surprises too. And now the collaboration begins!

Live now at #PGConfdev in Montreal Lukas Fittl is on stage, diving into “Tracking plan shapes over time with Plan IDs & a new pg_stat_plans”—discover how core plan‑ID tracking, partition‑aware metrics, and an extensible pg_stat_plans can revolutionize your #PostgreSQL query analy

Thanks! And yes, I think that change will finally make effective_io_concurrency live up to its name and expectations :)

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Over the last few weeks I've been incrementally merging infrastructure for AIO into postgres. Just now I finally merged the first actual user of AIO ("streaming reads" now can use AIO).

It's been a long long road. I've been, with a lot of help along the way, working on this since some time in 2019.

Hooray for getting it committed! Here is to not finding any (more) odd untested parts of Postgres that want to get in the way ;)

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Selective asynchronous commits in PostgreSQL - balancing durability and performance Safely leverage PostgreSQL's asynchronous commit for significant performance gains

Wrote a bit about an interesting find lately www.shayon.dev/post/2025/75...

Besides the usability going down the more fields we add, I do wonder if there is performance overhead with the internal struct getting bigger and bigger? Probably not significant compared to the query text handling I suppose. It does seem useful to have this tracked though..

Postgres query plan visualization tools - pgMustard When you’ve got a slow Postgres query, EXPLAIN and its parameters are incredibly useful for working out why. However, the information returned can be difficult (and time-consuming) to interpret, espe...

Looks like that link 404s - I assume you meant to link to www.pgmustard.com/blog/postgre... - and agreed, finding the balance with posts that talk about one's own product is hard when you want to stay fair, but I think you did a good
job :)