Post by Haider Z.

I've seen a lot of posts about PostgreSQL 18 features and improvements lately. But here's what I haven't seen enough of: A simple thank you. Do we really stop and appreciate the people behind the database we depend on every day? I don't think we do. And I think that's not right. So I wrote something different this time. Not a feature list. Not a technical breakdown. A thank you. In my latest post, I've named the contributors with the work they've done: Tagging some of the contributors, tag them in comments and appreciate them if you want, there are more contributors which I have added in the full post. → Tom Lane — Working on the query optimizer → Peter Eisentraut — build system, internationalization, documentation (20+ years) → Andres Freund — JIT compilation, async I/O, logical replication → Magnus Hagander — native Windows port, authentication system, postgresql.org infrastructure → Jonathan Katz — project governance, community advocacy, pgvector contributor → Bruce Momjian — roadmap, patch review, global advocacy → Dave Page — pgAdmin creator, postgresql.org infrastructure, PG Community Association Chair → Heikki Linnakangas — two-phase commit, FSM, visibility map → Amit Langote — declarative table partitioning → Robert Haas — parallel query execution → Vadim Mikheev — WAL and MVCC (the foundation of PostgreSQL transactions) → Alexander Kukushkin — Patroni (keeping your clusters alive) → Oleg Bartunov & Teodor Sigaev — full-text search, JSONB, GIN indexes → Masahiko Sawada — parallel vacuum, freeze map → Melanie Plageman — pg_stat_io, vacuum performance → Jan Wieck — PL/pgSQL, foreign keys, TOAST, Slony → Simon Riggs (remembrance) — Hot Standby, sync replication, PITR → Peter Geoghegan — UPSERT, B-tree performance → Álvaro Herrera — BRIN indexes, MERGE command → Claire Giordano — PostgreSQL community advocacy → Andreas Scherbaum — 25+ years of community service, conference organizing, PostgreSQL Europe board ...and 400+ more contributors in PostgreSQL 17 alone. 463 people gave their time, knowledge, and engineering discipline. We use their work in production every single day. The least we can do is say thank you. Take a moment. Reflect. And if PostgreSQL is saving your architecture acknowledge the people who made it possible. Full post with 100+ names and their contributions 👇 https://lnkd.in/eJYA6ymN --- Companies investing in PostgreSQL contributors: 🔹 Microsoft 19+ contributors including Andres Freund, Thomas Munro, Melanie Plageman, David Rowley, Amit Langote, Tomas Vondra, Alexander Kukushkin, Claire Giordano led by VP of Engineering Affan Dar 🔹 AWS — Nathan Bossart, Masahiko Sawada, Michael Paquier, Peter Geoghegan, Jeff Davis, and more 🔹 EDB — Peter Eisentraut, Robert Haas, Álvaro Herrera, Devrim Gündüz, and more I don't have visibility into who leads open-source Postgres efforts at AWS or Google Cloud or EDB. If you know drop it in the comments.