All The Postgres Things at Microsoft, POSETTE edition
summary
Microsoft reports 353 commits to Postgres in the last year with 27% made on behalf of others and contributions to Patroni, PgBouncer and pgcopydb; Postgres 17 gets Streaming I/O that reads up to 16 pages (128KB) at once, vacuum/WAL work cuts WAL by ~30% and pg_upgrade check runs up to 2x faster. Azure Database for PostgreSQL adds RDMA by default, Private Link and Entra ID support, Automatic Index Recommendations in preview, Azure AI extension GA and Azure Local AI single-digit ms embeddings; DiskANN retains recall where HNSW degrades.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:50POSETTE stands for
- 4:32Postgres 17 open source contributions
- 8:58Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- 11:02Investment pillars
- 16:02Index recommendations
- 17:40AI and Postgres
- 20:07Demo of local embeddings
- 21:05DiskANN vector indexing
- 22:19Our investments into Postgres
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