Pigsty Blog Articles

On July 8, 1996, the PostgreSQL community picked up the flame from Postgres95. Thirty years later, it has grown from a Berkeley research project into a default foundation of the global database ecosystem.

A field report on the PostgreSQL extension ecosystem: 1,617 discovered projects, 511 deliverable extensions, and the shared delivery layer needed to make extensibility work for users, authors, vendors, and PostgreSQL hackers.

Pigsty v4.3 adds 50 PostgreSQL extensions, bringing the total to 510. It also adds Ubuntu 26.04 x86_64/arm64 support, refreshes Supabase, pgEdge, PolarDB, Grafana, MinIO, and a batch of infra packages.

Two months after forking MinIO, pgsty/minio ships patches for four CVEs and related security issues. No new features, just working builds, a restored console, and timely security fixes.

A project manifesto: why build Cyber Dharma, and what it is not.

Once token burn turns from usage exhaust into a KPI and leaderboard, it quickly mutates into theater. Don't post fuel burn. Post where you got to.

One GitHub issue turned into an extension sprint. 32 new additions, 504 in total, say a lot about where PostgreSQL is headed.

Boring technology won the wildest era. A look at extensibility, agent choice, database cloning, and the future of the DBA.

When the strongest AI is not expensive but simply unavailable, the world starts converging on digital feudalism. And the window to act is narrowing.

Polanyi's tacit knowledge explains the 70% ceiling of AI agents: real intuition, feel, and judgment do not serialize cleanly. They grow, if at all, through practice.