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Quicker serverless Postgres connections

Neon’s serverless driver redirects the PostgreSQL TCP wire protocol over WebSockets. This makes ordinary, fully-functional PostgreSQL connections accessible from new environments — including serverless platforms like Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Edge Functions. A key feature of these environments is that state is not…

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PostgreSQL 14 Internals

I’m excited to announce that the translation of the “ PostgreSQL 14 Internals ” book is finally complete thanks to the amazing work of Liudmila Mantrova. The final part of the book considers each of the index types in great detail. It explains and demonstrates how access methods, operator classes, and data types work…

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DuckDB 0.7.0

The DuckDB team is happy to announce the latest DuckDB version (0.7.0) has been released. This release of DuckDB is named “Labradorius” after the Labrador Duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius) that was native to North America. To install the new version, please visit the installation guide. The full release notes can be…