PostgreSQL: SQL Property Graphs Land with a Bang
A massive day for PostgreSQL with the landing of SQL Property Graph Queries (SQL/PGQ) - a complete implementation of the ISO/IEC 9075-16:2023 standard. Along with this major feature, the team delivered 14 other commits including header cleanup optimizations, pg_upgrade fixes, and stats improvements, showing incredible momentum in the codebase.
Duration: PT4M17S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from PostgreSQL.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: PostgreSQL
- Published: 2026-03-16T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT4M17S
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Hey everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the PostgreSQL podcast! I'm your host, and wow - do we have an exciting episode for you today. Grab your favorite beverage because we're diving into what might be one of the most significant feature drops we've seen in PostgreSQL in quite some time.
So here's what happened yesterday - the team delivered 15 commits with zero merged pull requests, which tells us the core team has been heads-down, pushing some serious code directly to the main branch. And when I say serious, I mean *serious*.
Let's start with the absolute showstopper - Peter Eisentraut just landed SQL Property Graph Queries, also known as SQL/PGQ. This is a complete implementation of the ISO/IEC 9075-16:2023 standard, and folks, this is *huge*. We're talking about native graph database capabilities right inside PostgreSQL.
What does this mean for you? Well, you now get a GRAPH_TABLE table function for graph pattern matching, new DDL commands like CREATE, ALTER, and DROP PROPERTY GRAPH, and several brand new system catalogs. Peter even added psql support with a new \dG command - how cool is that? This feature represents months, maybe…
But the team didn't stop there.…
Pet…
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