https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/tags/pg-ecosystem/Recent content in PG Ecosystem on Yongjie XueHugoen-USThu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pgsql-cc-online/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pgsql-cc-online/pgsql.cc is live, with Chinese documentation for all 11 PostgreSQL major versions from 10 through 20, a redesigned mirror of the official website, and better full-text search. Kept in sync with upstream, with no ads.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/happy-30-birthday/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/happy-30-birthday/On July 8, 1996, the PostgreSQL community picked up the flame from Postgres95. Thirty years later, it has grown from a Berkeley research project into a default foundation of the global database ecosystem.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/extensions-for-everyone/Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/extensions-for-everyone/A field report on the PostgreSQL extension ecosystem: 1,617 discovered projects, 511 deliverable extensions, and the shared delivery layer needed to make extensibility work for users, authors, vendors, and PostgreSQL hackers.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pgcfd2026-intro/Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pgcfd2026-intro/PGConf.Dev 2026 opens in Vancouver as the PostgreSQL project marks its 30th anniversary. I will also be speaking on Extensions for Everyone.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pgbackrest-resume/Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pgbackrest-resume/Seven days after pgBackRest was archived, David Steele said a coalition of sponsors was nearly in place and the project would probably live on. This was not just a heartwarming community story. It was a remarkably clean exercise in forcing the market to price an open-source commons.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pgbackrest-archive/Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pgbackrest-archive/Its maintainer, under pressure to make a living, has formally archived pgBackRest, the PostgreSQL ecosystem’s most important backup tool. The entire PostgreSQL community needs to think seriously about how critical open-source dependencies can be sustained.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/extension-504/Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/extension-504/One GitHub issue turned into an extension sprint. 32 new additions, 504 in total, say a lot about where PostgreSQL is headed.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-vs-mysql-2026/Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-vs-mysql-2026/By 2026, PostgreSQL has won the market for new database adoption, outperforming MySQL across developer adoption, vendor strategy, capital markets, and community governance. MySQL still owns the installed base; Postgres owns the growth.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/db/db-year-review-2025/Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/db/db-year-review-2025/A conversation between Mike Stonebraker (MIT CSAIL, Turing Award Winner, Creator of PostgreSQL), Andy Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University), and the DBOS team.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aliyun-supabase/Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aliyun-supabase/Founders here get asked the same question over and over: what if Alibaba builds the same thing? Alicloud RDS just launched Supabase as a managed service. Exhibit A.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/proprity-pg/Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/proprity-pg/The same forces that once led MongoDB and MySQL toward closure are now at work in the PostgreSQL ecosystem. The PG world needs a distribution that represents “software freedom” values.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/so2025-pg/Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/so2025-pg/The 2025 SO global developer survey results are fresh out, and PostgreSQL has become the most popular, most loved, and most wanted database for the third consecutive year. Nothing can stop PostgreSQL from consolidating the entire database world!https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/rds-duckdb/Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/rds-duckdb/Does bolting DuckDB onto RDS suddenly make open-source Postgres ‘trash’? Business and open source should be symbiotic. If a vendor only extracts without giving back, the community will spit it out."https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-frontier/Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-frontier/Sharing some interesting recent developments in the PG ecosystem.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/db/db-is-the-arch/Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/db/db-is-the-arch/Databases are the core of business architecture, but what happens if we go further and let databases become the business architecture itself?https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/db/supabase/Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/db/supabase/Supabase is great, own your own Supabase is even better. A tutorial for self-hosting production-grade supabase on local/cloud/ VM/BMs.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-ext-repo/Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-ext-repo/PostgreSQL is eating the database world through extensibility. This post introduces the Pigsty extension repository, which packaged 390 PostgreSQL extensions at launch and keeps growing through the Pigsty extension catalog.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/db/bad-mongo/Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/db/bad-mongo/MongoDB has a terrible track record on integrity, lackluster products and technology, gets beaten by PG in correctness, performance, and functionality, with collapsing developer reputation, declining popularity, stock price halving, and expanding losses. Provocative marketing against PG can’t save it with “good marketing.”https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-replace-mssql/Mon, 02 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-replace-mssql/PostgreSQL can directly replace Oracle, SQL Server, and MongoDB at the kernel level. Of course, the most thorough replacement is SQL Server - AWS’s Babelfish provides wire-protocol-level compatibility.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-duckdb/Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-duckdb/Just like the vector database extension race two years ago, the current PostgreSQL ecosystem extension competition has begun revolving around DuckDB. MotherDuck’s official entry into the PostgreSQL extension space undoubtedly signals that competition has entered white-hot territory.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-is-no1-again/Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-is-no1-again/The 2024 StackOverflow Global Developer Survey results are fresh out, and PostgreSQL has become the most popular, most loved, and most wanted database globally for the second consecutive year. Nothing can stop PostgreSQL from devouring the entire database world anymore!https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pgcondev-2024/Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pgcondev-2024/Experience & Feeling on the PGCon.Dev 2024https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-eat-db-world/Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-eat-db-world/PostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/just-use-pg/Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/just-use-pg/Whether production databases should be containerized remains a controversial topic. From a DBA’s perspective, I believe that currently, putting production databases in Docker is still a bad idea.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/paradedb/Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/paradedb/ParadeDB aims to be an Elasticsearch alternative: “Modern Elasticsearch Alternative built on Postgres” — PostgreSQL for search and analytics.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-dbeng-2024/Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-dbeng-2024/DB-Engines officially announced today that PostgreSQL has once again been crowned “Database of the Year.” This is the fifth time PG has received this honor in the past seven years. If not for Snowflake stealing the spotlight for two years, the database world would have almost become a PostgreSQL solo show.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/ferretdb/Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/ferretdb/FerretDB aims to provide a truly open-source MongoDB alternative based on PostgreSQL.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-is-no1/Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-is-no1/StackOverflow 2023 Survey shows PostgreSQL is the most popular, loved, and wanted database, solidifying its status as the ‘Linux of Database’.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-performence/Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-performence/Let performance data speak: Why PostgreSQL is the world’s most advanced open-source relational database, aka the world’s most successful database. MySQL vs PostgreSQL performance showdown and distributed database reality check.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-is-best/Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-is-best/Database users are developers, but what about developers’ preferences, likes, and choices? Looking at StackOverflow survey results over the past six years, it’s clear that in 2022, PostgreSQL has won all three categories, becoming literally the “most successful database”https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-is-great/Sat, 08 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-is-great/Databases are the core component of information systems, relational databases are the absolute backbone of databases, and PostgreSQL is the world’s most advanced open source relational database. With such favorable timing and positioning, how can it not achieve great success?https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-is-good/Sun, 10 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/pg/pg-is-good/PostgreSQL’s slogan is “The World’s Most Advanced Open-Source Relational Database,” but I think the most vivid characterization should be: The Full-Stack Database That Does It All - one tool to rule them all.