As we close out 2025, we’re thrilled to reflect on an incredible year of knowledge sharing, community building, and technical deep-dives into the PostgreSQL ecosystem. Our team published 79 comprehensive blog posts throughout the year, covering everything from fundamental concepts to cutting-edge PostgreSQL 18 features.
The Numbers That Tell Our Story
- 79 blog posts published across 12 months.
- 9 authors contributing their expertise.
- 31 consecutive days of PostgreSQL 18 feature spotlights during our “PG18 Hacktober” series
- Topics spanning high availability, performance tuning, security, replication, migrations, and more
Our Top Contributors
This year’s content wouldn’t have been possible without our amazing team:
- Akhil led the charge with 22 posts, including the complete Patroni HA series and spearheading our #PG18Hacktober initiative. If you’re attending PGConf India 2026 – do attend this talk delivered by our very own Hari Kiran.
- Shameer delivered 16 deep-dives into PostgreSQL parameters, triggers, and subqueries.
- Shashidhar contributed 12 posts covering installations, upgrades, and system internals.
- Keerthi provided 9 expert insights on logical replication and WAL management.
- Lokesh authored 4 posts on security and migration tools.
- Lahari contributed 3 posts during #PG18Hacktober on indexes and constraints.
Welcoming Fresh Voices
2025 marked an exciting milestone as we welcomed three first-time bloggers to our content team:
Krishna made their debut during our PG18Hacktober series with “Ansible based Installation & Replication,” bringing DevOps automation expertise to PostgreSQL deployment strategies.
Kushwanth joined the celebration with an insightful post on internationalization and LIKE comparisons in PostgreSQL 18, adding valuable perspective on PostgreSQL’s growing global capabilities.
Chandini emerged as a powerhouse contributor in the final quarter, publishing five comprehensive posts on collaboration of OpenSource DB‘s PostgreSQL expertize with Aiven. Her series covered everything from high availability architecture to integrating PostgreSQL with Kafka,ClickHouse, OpenSearch, and Valkey, an impressive debut that showcased deep expertise in modern cloud-native database architectures.
We’re thrilled to see new voices joining our PostgreSQL blogging. New authors brought fresh perspectives and specialized knowledge that enriched our content diversity. Here’s to nurturing more talented writers in 2026!
Signature Series That Defined 2025
PG18Hacktober: 31 Days of New features
Our crown jewel of 2025 was the PG18Hacktober series , where we unveiled a new PostgreSQL 18 feature every single day in October. From the game-changing pg_upgrade --sync option to OAuth authentication, temporal constraints, and asynchronous I/O improvements, we left no stone unturned. Check out the series here!!
OpenSource DB + Aiven Series
Chandini wrapped up our year with five comprehensive posts exploring enterprise PostgreSQL deployment with Aiven, including integration with Kafka, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, and Valkey for modern, cloud-native architectures.
Patroni High Availability Trilogy
Akhil’s three-part series on PostgreSQL HA with Patroni became essential reading for anyone building production-ready PostgreSQL clusters, culminating in November’s post on eliminating single points of failure with Keepalived.
Understanding PostgreSQL Parameters
Shameer’s ongoing series demystified PostgreSQL’s configuration landscape, covering connections, memory, vacuum, background writers, and asynchronous parameters—practical guides that turned complex tuning into manageable tasks.
Key Themes and Hot Topics
Performance & Optimization
From DBtune’s FinOps and GreenOps approaches to HypoPG index testing and vacuum parameter tuning, we emphasized making PostgreSQL faster and more efficient.
Security First
Multiple posts tackled data security head-on, including pgcrypto encryption, SSL/TLS configurations, FIPS mode validation, and SHA-2 password hashing in PG18.
Replication & High Availability
Logical replication, physical replication troubleshooting, conflict handling, and streaming changes dominated our HA coverage, ensuring your data stays available and consistent.
Real-World Problem Solving
We didn’t just share theory—posts like “How We Solved Prepared Statement Issues with PgBouncer” and “PostgreSQL Physical Replication Gone Wrong” brought real production lessons to the community.
Looking Ahead to 2026
As we enter the new year, we’re energized by the PostgreSQL community’s growth and innovation. We’ll continue delivering:
- Practical, production-tested solutions.
- Deep technical analysis of new features.
- Step-by-step guides for complex implementations.
- Lessons learned from real-world challenges.
- PG19 Hacktober series.
Thank You
Beyond the Blog: Expanding Our Content Universe
While this review celebrates our technical blog posts, 2025 saw our content ecosystem expand in exciting new directions:
Praveena has been a content powerhouse, publishing 48 posts on Startup’s ecosystem. Her insights on startup operations, best practices, and startup-focused strategies have helped countless early-stage companies build robust foundation.
Aarti brought PostgreSQL to life through creative visualizing posting of PostgreSQL on LinkedIn, making complex topics like indexing, logical replication, and extensions accessible and engaging through visual storytelling. Her innovative approach has helped us reach audiences who prefer dynamic, visual learning formats.
Jeswita deserves special recognition for amplifying our reach by consistently sharing our technical blog posts on LinkedIn. Her dedication to social media engagement ensured our content reached the wider PostgreSQL community and sparked valuable discussions across professional networks.
A Special Thanks to Our Review Panel
Behind every great blog post is a rigorous review process. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Hari Kiran and Shiv Shankar Sastry, whose dedication to quality assurance ensured every piece met our high standards. Their meticulous reviews, constructive feedback, and technical expertise elevated our content throughout the year. Thank you for being the unsung heroes of our blogging success!
To our readers, commenters, and the broader PostgreSQL community—thank you for making 2025 such a rewarding year. Your feedback, questions, and shared experiences inspire us to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with PostgreSQL. And also comment below “Which 2025 post was your favorite? What topics would you like us to cover in 2026?” Let us know..
Here’s to another year of open-source excellence, knowledge sharing, and PostgreSQL mastery!
Happy New Year from the OpenSource DB team! 🎉