What Microsoft is Building for Postgres in 2025
summary
Microsoft reports 456 pre-release commits to Postgres 18 and adds true asynchronous I/O, planner and hash-join speedups, a vacuum I/O reduction, and a multi-threading groundwork; partition planning shows 3x faster with 56 partitions. A new VS Code extension integrates Copilot, Entra auth, and psql terminals. Azure Postgres ships DiskANN with product quantization and semantic SQL operators like azure_ai.rank() plus elastic clusters (Citus), v6 SKUs up to 192 vCores/1.8 TB, on-demand backups with 5-minute PITR, and 70+ supported extensions.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:23Postgres 18 Contributions
- 5:58NEW VS Code for Postgres
- 7:06DEMO – VS Code for Postgres
- 10:06AI Innovations: DiskANN & Semantic Operators
- 12:55DEMO – Semantic Operators
- 16:28Elastic Clusters to Scale Out Postgres
- 17:30Performance & Scale
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