The open source extension for distributed #PostgreSQL. Part of @microsoft's @AzureCosmosDB team. GitHub ⭐️ appreciated! github.com/citusdata/citus

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📣Citus 14.0 open source release is out with support for #PostgreSQL 18! 🎉 Check out the blog post for details on distributed PG18 with Citus 14, such as AIO, skip-scan, uuidv7(), OAuth, RETURNING OLD/NEW, temporal constraints, and more. citusdata.com/blog/2026/02/1…
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Join us on YouTube for the Citus 13 release party! 🎉 Happening Wed 12 Mar @ 10am PDT | 1pm EDT | 6pm CET. Demos, news & good conversation. 📰👋, Several of the engineers that built this release of the Citus #PostgreSQL extension will be there. youtube.com/live/DrCu8SX2nDM…
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🎉It's time to celebrate! Citus 13 has launched. A few of our #PostgreSQL engineers want to tell you all about it. There will be demos. 🖥️ Save the date! aka.ms/citus-release-party-1…
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Citus 13.0 open source release is out with support for #PostgreSQL 17! 🎉 Check out the blog post for details on distributed PG17.2 with Citus 13, such as JSON_TABLE() in distributed queries, optimizer improvements, and more 🐘 citusdata.com/blog/2025/02/0…
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New episode of the #TalkingPostgres podcast 🎙️ Affan Dar joined to share what’s it like to lead #PostgreSQL engineering on @AzureDBPostgres & also our PG open source work. Affan is so down to earth, it's a good listen! 🐘 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes… 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=yLdT5E1Q…
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New episode of the #TalkingPostgres podcast Rails & PG expert @andatki joined to talk about helping Rails developers learn Postgres with his new book "High performance PostgreSQL for Rails" 🧀 Featuring a cheese factory 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes… 📺 youtu.be/lvDJr164sKg
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Happening now at #PGConfEU @pgconfeu in Athens, @nbyavuz & @MengTangmu from the Postgres team @Microsoft are sharing the stage to give their PostgreSQL 17 talk titled “Streaming I/O and vectored I/O” which paves the way for AIO in Postgres in the future
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One of my teammates—engineer @senagng who works on the #PostgreSQL team at Microsoft (and who I just met for the first time in-person ❤️)—is on stage at @pgconfeu #PGConfEU giving a talk titled “Smooth Sailing: How We Tackled PostgreSQL Migration Challenges from CentOS to Ubuntu”
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And now my much-admired teammate @AndresFreundTec from the #PostgreSQL team at Microsoft is on stage at @pgconfeu to talk about NUMA (non uniform memory access) vs. PostgreSQL. Why? Because Moore’s law is dead and everyone is building chiplet architectures #PGConfEU
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Are you at @pgconfeu 2024 happening this week in Athens? This beloved #PGConfEU conference keeps getting bigger—this year with 779 attendees & a whole lot of learning happening. Come say hello 👋 at the @Microsoft booth & tell us what your favorite part of #PostgreSQL is?
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New episode of the #TalkingPostgres podcast #PostgreSQL luminary Tom Lane joined me to discuss how he got started as a developer & in Postgres. Featuring pinball machines, JPEGs on usenet, code on Mars, & pgsql-hackers 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes… 📺 aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-Ep20-…
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Check out this playlist of the #PostgreSQL Ecosystem talks from #PosetteConf 2024 and learn about SaaS on Rails, benchmarking, profiling, PostGIS, scaling, connection poolers, & extensions 🐘 aka.ms/posette-2024-postgres…
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Just left #PGConfNYC & I want to shout from the tall NYC rooftops to say thank you 🙏 to the @pgconfnyc organizers, talk selection team, speakers, & amazing people I met. So nice to see the 45% growth in attendees vs last year. Also: Gratitude 🙌 for my @Microsoft teammates who came to support the #PostgreSQL open source community (we were a Platinum sponsor ✅) & meet with @AzureDBPostgres customers too.
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New episode of #TalkingPostgres 🎙️ w/guest & Postgres developer @melanieplageman Melanie & I discuss becoming a Postgres committer, quitting her job, mentorship, asking for help, empathy, & the responsibililty of it all 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes… 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=X7Pr5c5K…
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New episode of the #TalkingPostgres podcast (previously #PathToCitusCon) In Ep18, @davidrowley_pg & I talk about how David got his start as a developer & in #PostgreSQL. Starting from motorbikes 🏍️ & cheese factories 🧀 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes… 📺 aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-Ep18-…
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Watch @mulander’s talk from #PosetteConf 2024 🐘 “From Postgres full text search to Retrieval Augmented Generative search” and learn how to employ recent developments in machine learning models into your #PostgreSQL applications 🤖 youtu.be/TI5tNC2XtPM?si=IuMA…
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Thank you to those of you who reported that you could not get to the Citus open source project website (and the blog). We're working on getting it back online. ETA for the fix is by Thu morning PDT. Will give another update tomorrow/Wed. Apologies for the inconvenience.
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The latest episode of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast is Episode 17 with Pino de Candia as our guest ( me as your host) on the topic of "Podcasting about Postgres" 🎙️ talkingpostgres.com/episodes…
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Latest episode of #TalkingPostgres podcast (formerly #PathToCitusCon) In this Ep17, I have a "meta" conversation with guest Pino de Candia on podcasting about Postgres—and shout-outs to a-ma-zing 🔥 past guests & other podcasts too 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes… 📺 aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-Ep17-…
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