Pigsty Blog Articles
How Many Shops Has etcd Torched?
May 07, 2025 in Database

Plenty. If you’re rolling your own Kubernetes, odds are you’ll crash because etcd ships with a 2 GB time bomb.
Plenty. If you’re rolling your own Kubernetes, odds are you’ll crash because etcd ships with a 2 GB time bomb.
Pigsty v3.5: 4K Stars, PG18 Beta, 421 Extensions
May 01, 2025 in Pigsty

Pigsty crosses 4K GitHub stars, adds PG18 beta support, pushes extensions to 421, ships new doc site, and completes OrioleDB/OpenHalo full-platform support.
Pigsty crosses 4K GitHub stars, adds PG18 beta support, pushes extensions to 421, ships new doc site, and completes OrioleDB/OpenHalo full-platform support.
In the AI Era, Software Starts at the Database
April 27, 2025 in Database

Future software = Agent + Database. No middle tiers, just agents issuing CRUD. Database skills age well, and PostgreSQL is poised to be the agent-era default.
Future software = Agent + Database. No middle tiers, just agents issuing CRUD. Database skills age well, and PostgreSQL is poised to be the agent-era default.
MySQL vs. PostgreSQL @ 2025
April 17, 2025 in Database

A 2025 reality check on where PostgreSQL stands relative to MySQL across features, performance, quality, and ecosystem.
A 2025 reality check on where PostgreSQL stands relative to MySQL across features, performance, quality, and ecosystem.
Postgres Extension Day - See You There!
April 09, 2025 in PostgreSQL

The annual PostgreSQL developer conference will be held in Montreal in May. Like the first PG Con.Dev, there's also an additional dedicated event - Postgres Extensions Day
The annual PostgreSQL developer conference will be held in Montreal in May. Like the first PG Con.Dev, there's also an additional dedicated event - Postgres Extensions Day
OrioleDB is Coming! 4x Performance, Eliminates Pain Points, Storage-Compute Separation
April 06, 2025 in PostgreSQL

A PG kernel fork acquired by Supabase, claiming to solve PG's XID wraparound problem, eliminate table bloat issues, improve performance by 4x, and support cloud-native storage. Now part of the Pigsty family.
A PG kernel fork acquired by Supabase, claiming to solve PG's XID wraparound problem, eliminate table bloat issues, improve performance by 4x, and support cloud-native storage. Now part of the Pigsty family.
OpenHalo: MySQL Wire-Compatible PostgreSQL is Here!
April 03, 2025 in PostgreSQL

What? PostgreSQL can now be accessed using MySQL clients? That's right, openHalo, which was open-sourced on April Fool's Day, provides exactly this capability and has now joined the Pigsty kernel family.
What? PostgreSQL can now be accessed using MySQL clients? That's right, openHalo, which was open-sourced on April Fool's Day, provides exactly this capability and has now joined the Pigsty kernel family.
PGFS: Using Database as a Filesystem
March 21, 2025 in PostgreSQL
Leverage JuiceFS to turn PostgreSQL into a filesystem with PITR capabilities!
Pigsty v3.4: PITR Enhancement, Locale Best Practices, Auto Certificates
March 18, 2025 in Pigsty

Pigsty v3.4 adds pgBackRest backup monitoring, cross-cluster PITR restore, automated HTTPS certificates, locale best practices, and full-platform IvorySQL and Apache AGE support.
Pigsty v3.4 adds pgBackRest backup monitoring, cross-cluster PITR restore, automated HTTPS certificates, locale best practices, and full-platform IvorySQL and Apache AGE support.
Database Planet Collision: When PG Falls for DuckDB
March 12, 2025 in Database

If you ask me, we’re on the brink of a cosmic collision in database-land, and Postgres + DuckDB is the meteor we should all be watching.
If you ask me, we’re on the brink of a cosmic collision in database-land, and Postgres + DuckDB is the meteor we should all be watching.
