Database stories from Lobsters

pgBackRest has secured long-term funding through a new coalition of corporate sponsors, including Amazon Web Services, Supabase, pgEdge, Tiger Data, Percona, and Eon.io. This multi-sponsor model ensures project stability and sustainability for disaster recovery in the PostgreSQL ecosystem, enabling upcoming feature development and optimizations.

Bab is a family of hashing functions inspired by Blake3 and Bao, designed for resilient data storage with features like concurrent multi-source downloading, error detection during partial transfers, and constant-size length proofs. It optimizes computations for repeating substrings while offering a parameterizable specification and storage-centric API design.