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The Changelog · October 28, 2026 · 1h 46m

The future is Postgres

Adam Stacoviak, Craig Kerstiens
Show Notes

Craig Kerstiens returns to discuss how Postgres is evolving beyond a traditional relational database. The core remains deliberately boring, but a thriving extension ecosystem—including the new pg_lake connecting DuckDB and Iceberg—is expanding its capabilities into analytics and data lake workloads. The conversation covers the persistent pain of ETL, what to watch for in Postgres 19, and how AI is reshaping the landscape for open source maintainers.

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Postgres is deliberately boring at the core
The Postgres core stays intentionally stable and boring, while innovation is pushed to the extension ecosystem.
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pg_lake brings DuckDB and Iceberg to Postgres
The pg_lake extension integrates DuckDB's analytical engine and the Iceberg table format directly into Postgres.
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