Andres Freund
@anarazel.de
Long time postgres developer, working at Microsoft.
See also https://mastodon.social/@AndresFreundTec
See also https://mastodon.social/@AndresFreundTec
Tom stamped PG 18. Just a few more days for the official release....
git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgre...
git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgre...
Stamp 18.0. - postgresql.git - This is the main PostgreSQL git repository.
git.postgresql.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Tom stamped PG 18. Just a few more days for the official release....
git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgre...
git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgre...
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🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep31 just published!
Andres Freund @anarazel.de explored what went wrong (& what went right) with AIO in Postgres 18. Featuring io_uring, prototypes, streaming reads, CI, & why it took too long
🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...
📺 youtu.be/bVei7-AyMJ8?...
Andres Freund @anarazel.de explored what went wrong (& what went right) with AIO in Postgres 18. Featuring io_uring, prototypes, streaming reads, CI, & why it took too long
🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...
📺 youtu.be/bVei7-AyMJ8?...
September 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep31 just published!
Andres Freund @anarazel.de explored what went wrong (& what went right) with AIO in Postgres 18. Featuring io_uring, prototypes, streaming reads, CI, & why it took too long
🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...
📺 youtu.be/bVei7-AyMJ8?...
Andres Freund @anarazel.de explored what went wrong (& what went right) with AIO in Postgres 18. Featuring io_uring, prototypes, streaming reads, CI, & why it took too long
🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...
📺 youtu.be/bVei7-AyMJ8?...
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024)
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
August 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024)
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Real press failing here. It's crucial that Padilla was roughly forced out in the context of a blatantly authoritarian statement by Noem. @washingtonpost.com doesn't mention Noem's statement, @nytimes.com only mentions it very far down, and not in the summary of the events.
bsky.app/profile/just...
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Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Real press failing here. It's crucial that Padilla was roughly forced out in the context of a blatantly authoritarian statement by Noem. @washingtonpost.com doesn't mention Noem's statement, @nytimes.com only mentions it very far down, and not in the summary of the events.
bsky.app/profile/just...
bsky.app/profile/just...
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This is very dangerous way to phrase the mission when regular US military forces are part of it. "Liberate" a major US city from its duly elected state and local officials? Utterly unacceptable language
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is very dangerous way to phrase the mission when regular US military forces are part of it. "Liberate" a major US city from its duly elected state and local officials? Utterly unacceptable language
That's some really creepy dictatorial shit.
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
That's some really creepy dictatorial shit.
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Happening at ##PGConfdev, a different kind of talk from Andres Freund of Microsoft—in which he reflects on one of the most exciting projects in ##PostgreSQL 18 with his talk titled: “What went wrong with AIO”
May 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Happening at ##PGConfdev, a different kind of talk from Andres Freund of Microsoft—in which he reflects on one of the most exciting projects in ##PostgreSQL 18 with his talk titled: “What went wrong with AIO”
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THREAD: When @thekrebscycle.bsky.social and his workplace, @sentinelone.com, were singled out by Donald Trump on Wednesday, I thought it was an opportunity to weigh the cybersecurity industry's rhetoric against their real world actions.
April 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
THREAD: When @thekrebscycle.bsky.social and his workplace, @sentinelone.com, were singled out by Donald Trump on Wednesday, I thought it was an opportunity to weigh the cybersecurity industry's rhetoric against their real world actions.
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💯 the quickest way to clientelism is to do to the American business sectors what they have done to the bureaucracy, universities, the lawyers, and every other social institution
It's just enormously important to understand that the goal of this tariff policy isn't to raise money or to increase manufacturing in the United States. The goal is to make some of the nation's largest companies subject to Trump's personal discretion and dependent on his favor.
April 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
💯 the quickest way to clientelism is to do to the American business sectors what they have done to the bureaucracy, universities, the lawyers, and every other social institution
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It's just enormously important to understand that the goal of this tariff policy isn't to raise money or to increase manufacturing in the United States. The goal is to make some of the nation's largest companies subject to Trump's personal discretion and dependent on his favor.
March 6, 2025 at 3:45 AM
It's just enormously important to understand that the goal of this tariff policy isn't to raise money or to increase manufacturing in the United States. The goal is to make some of the nation's largest companies subject to Trump's personal discretion and dependent on his favor.
Over the last few weeks I've been incrementally merging infrastructure for AIO into postgres. Just now I finally merged the first actual user of AIO ("streaming reads" now can use AIO).
It's been a long long road. I've been, with a lot of help along the way, working on this since some time in 2019.
It's been a long long road. I've been, with a lot of help along the way, working on this since some time in 2019.
March 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Over the last few weeks I've been incrementally merging infrastructure for AIO into postgres. Just now I finally merged the first actual user of AIO ("streaming reads" now can use AIO).
It's been a long long road. I've been, with a lot of help along the way, working on this since some time in 2019.
It's been a long long road. I've been, with a lot of help along the way, working on this since some time in 2019.
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I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus."
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...
Trump’s Secret Police Are Now Disappearing Students For Their Op-Eds
For years, we’ve been hearing breathless warnings about a “campus free speech crisis” from self-proclaimed free speech warriors. Their evidence? College students doing what colleg…
www.techdirt.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus."
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...
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I really wonder about reporters (the white ones) in elite political news outlets in Washington DC - are they just going to pretend that this is ok or will they have any shred of humanity to call this out for what this is?
March 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I really wonder about reporters (the white ones) in elite political news outlets in Washington DC - are they just going to pretend that this is ok or will they have any shred of humanity to call this out for what this is?
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The Atlantic article doesn't quite say what form Hegseth's “TEAM UPDATE.” had, but it sure sounds like it was a document, not just a chat message typed on the phone.
Which begs the question of how he even got that information onto the private phone?
Which begs the question of how he even got that information onto the private phone?
March 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The Atlantic article doesn't quite say what form Hegseth's “TEAM UPDATE.” had, but it sure sounds like it was a document, not just a chat message typed on the phone.
Which begs the question of how he even got that information onto the private phone?
Which begs the question of how he even got that information onto the private phone?
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THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country.
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
March 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country.
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
Indeed. As a GC holder with a pending n400 I have the urge to self censor every time I write something public. Much more so than during Trump I. I try to suppress that urge, but I'm sure that a lot gets filtered subconsciously.
Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political
March 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Indeed. As a GC holder with a pending n400 I have the urge to self censor every time I write something public. Much more so than during Trump I. I try to suppress that urge, but I'm sure that a lot gets filtered subconsciously.
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Bad, bad news. Unnecessary, punitive, vindictive. "The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/c58f...
US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine
Fresh blow to embattled government in Kyiv as Trump administration shifts on conflict
www.ft.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Bad, bad news. Unnecessary, punitive, vindictive. "The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/c58f...
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How did our country (the U.S.) create and elevate such a group of cowardly, greedy, vain, arrogant, and profoundly insecure men to the highest rungs of power? They bring Zelensky to the Oval Office for what? To mock and denigrate a truly courageous leader & try to bring him down to their base level?
February 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
How did our country (the U.S.) create and elevate such a group of cowardly, greedy, vain, arrogant, and profoundly insecure men to the highest rungs of power? They bring Zelensky to the Oval Office for what? To mock and denigrate a truly courageous leader & try to bring him down to their base level?
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Judge Kollar-Kotelly grilled counsel for the government on DOGE's command structure.
Counsel repeatedly said he didn't know the answer to her questions.
The judge said the questions are relevant bc she has concerns about whether DOGE is operating constitutionally under the Appointments Clause.
Counsel repeatedly said he didn't know the answer to her questions.
The judge said the questions are relevant bc she has concerns about whether DOGE is operating constitutionally under the Appointments Clause.
February 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Judge Kollar-Kotelly grilled counsel for the government on DOGE's command structure.
Counsel repeatedly said he didn't know the answer to her questions.
The judge said the questions are relevant bc she has concerns about whether DOGE is operating constitutionally under the Appointments Clause.
Counsel repeatedly said he didn't know the answer to her questions.
The judge said the questions are relevant bc she has concerns about whether DOGE is operating constitutionally under the Appointments Clause.
I occasionally wonder how much of the polled network/storage performance gains being talked about are in reality mainly about the effect of CPU idling.
February 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I occasionally wonder how much of the polled network/storage performance gains being talked about are in reality mainly about the effect of CPU idling.
By Rubio, Trump and the rest of the GOP which doesn't exactly seem to be pushing back...
Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.
February 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
By Rubio, Trump and the rest of the GOP which doesn't exactly seem to be pushing back...
Apparently I still can be shocked and surprised.
If any of this is true, it's such an utterly pointless use of cruelty. Just straight out intentionally physically harming federal employees.
If any of this is true, it's such an utterly pointless use of cruelty. Just straight out intentionally physically harming federal employees.
JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
February 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Apparently I still can be shocked and surprised.
If any of this is true, it's such an utterly pointless use of cruelty. Just straight out intentionally physically harming federal employees.
If any of this is true, it's such an utterly pointless use of cruelty. Just straight out intentionally physically harming federal employees.
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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
February 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...