September 2023 Citus Open Source Newsletter

Adding Postgres 16 support to Citus 12.1

Postgres 16 is now supported by Citus! Read on for an overview of the Citus 12.1 release—with PG16 support & schema-based sharding improvements.

Read Naisila’s post ⟶

🎙️Path to Citus Con Ep08 – Wed October 11th

Listen in to find out how Postgres committers Andres Freund & Heikki Linnakangas got started as developers & with Postgres.

Mark your calendar ⟶

The Story Behind the Activity Book for Postgres

A visual exploration of the fun Activity Book for Postgres produced by the Postgres team at Microsoft—combined with the origin story.

Read Teresa’s post ⟶

PGConf NYC 2023 is next week! Oct 3-5

There’s still time to get your discounted ticket for PGConf NYC next week. Our team will be there with bells on—with the new Activity Book for Postgres & socks!

Get your ticket with code PGNYC23 ⟶

Why giving talks at Postgres conferences matters? Highlights from a podcast

Highlights & key moments from Ep03 of the Path To Citus Con—all about why giving talks at Postgres conferences matters, with guests Álvaro Herrera & Boriss Mejías.

Read Claire’s post ⟶

September updates for Citus on Azure

Customer managed keys are now generally available in Azure Cosmos DB for Postgres, and more regions too. Release notes are updated frequently to keep you up to date.

Read the release notes ⟶

From Cybertec: Citus Row Store vs Column Store in PostgreSQL

Explore row store vs columnar store with Hans-Jürgen Schönig from Cybertec. What is the best option in the context of Postgres & Citus?

Read Cybertec’s post ⟶

Episode 7 highlights of Path To Citus Con podcast w/Paul Ramsey & Regina Obe

Paul Ramsey & Regina Obe explore the topic of why people care about PostGIS and Postgres, along with Claire and Pino.

Read the highlights ⟶

ICYMI: Schema-based sharding comes to PostgreSQL with Citus

Find out how schema-based sharding was implemented in Citus. Onur also explains all you need to know to start sharding your Postgres database with schemas.

Read Onur’s post ⟶