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New Presentation
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
I just gave a new presentation at Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day titled What's Missing in Postgres? It's an unusual talk because it explains the missing features of Postgres, and why. One thing I learned in writing the talk is that the majority of our missing features are performance-related, rather than functionality-related. I took many questions:
- some pointed out that extensions supply much of this missing functionality
- some supported the lack of features because the features are either unnecessary or harmful
- some features are in-progress (slide 31)
Thanks to Melanie Plageman for the idea of this talk.
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