# Postgres year in review 2025

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Podcast: [Postgres FM](https://stenobird.com/podcast/postgres-fm-5565051)
Published: 2026-01-02T14:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/35167149
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Duration seconds: 2845

## Resource

Nik and Michael discuss the events and trends they thought were most important in the Postgres ecosystem in 2025. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Postgres 18 release notes https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html Our episode on Postgres 18 https://postgres.fm/episodes/postgres-18 LWLock:LockManager benchmarks for Postgres 18 (blog post by Nik) https://postgres.ai/blog/20251009-postgres-marathon-2-005 PostgreSQL bug tied to zero-day attack on US Treasury https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/postgresql_bug_treasury PgDog episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/pgdog Multigres episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/multigres Neki announcement https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-neki Our 100TB episode from 2024 https://postgres.fm/episodes/to-100tb-and-beyond PlanetScale for Postgres https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-for-postgres Oracle's MySQL job cuts https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/oracle_slammed_for_mysql_job Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/05/amazon-aurora-dsql-generally-available Announcing Azure HorizonDB https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-azure-horizondb/4469710 Lessons from Replit and Tiger Data on Storage for Agentic Experimentation https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/lessons-replit-tiger-data-storage-agentic-experimentation Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 https://boringsql.com/posts/instant-database-clones turbopuffer episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/turbopuffer Crunchy joins Snowflake https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/crunchy-data-joins-snowflake Neon joins Databricks https://neon.com/blog/neon-and-databricks ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social…

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