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    Jun 11
    Introducing the latest in Postgres for agentic workloads. Agents can now branch or wake your Postgres database instantly.
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    Aug 11
    pgp_sym_decrypt with the wrong key throws "Wrong key or corrupt data". It does not hand back garbage bytes. That is the PGP format's integrity check, and it is a useful property if you are encrypting columns with a different key per tenant. A query that picks up the wrong
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    Jul 31
    Finding a slow query on a Postgres branch, without leaving the terminal. xata branch query-insights ranks that branch's statements by cost, flags the slow ones, and prints the command to inspect any of them. Logs and instance metrics are one command away.
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    Jul 31
    @tudor_g on how Xata is actually built: copy-on-write branching at the ZFS volume level, pools of pre-provisioned Postgres clusters kept warm so an idle branch wakes in about a second, and why pgstream is Apache 2.0 and runs in your environment.
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    Postgres FM
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    Jul 31
    New episode: "Xata" Nik and Michael are joined by @tudor_g, CTO of @xata, to discuss their architecture, progress, and open source tooling. 🎧️️ postgres.fm/episodes/xata 📺️️ youtu.be/hNUw1349yes
    Pictures of Tudor, Nik, and Michael mid-recording, the episode title "Xata", against a pink background with an elephant wearing sunglasses.
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    Jul 23
    If you're giving every coding agent and every PR its own Postgres branch, you're not clicking those into existence, you're scripting them. So the CLI output has to be readable by a script, or an agent. Now it is. Piped output is clean plain text, and xata branch list --json is
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