Benchmarking

Two upcoming Postgres releases are drawing attention this week for different reasons: PostgreSQL 18 addresses a well-documented operational frustration with large-table vacuuming, while PostgreSQL 19 quietly removes a failure mode that has caused production outages on high-concurrency clusters. Alongside those internals stories, the lakehouse integration space is generating architectural debate, and the question of how to fairly benchmark hosted Postgres services is getting a more structured answer.