Partitioning

2026
This week’s Postgres landscape is defined by two converging threads: a significant security reckoning in the May 2026 coordinated release cycle, and a wave of architectural work — from partition management redesign to copy-on-write sandbox cloning — that reflects the growing operational demands placed on production Postgres deployments. Together they make a strong case for treating both upgrade cadence and extension hygiene as first-class engineering concerns.