KEYNOTE: Driving Postgres forward at Microsoft | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026
Microsoft launched HorizonDB public preview and made 345 Postgres 19 commits while advancing AI-enhanced database tooling.
“In Postgres 19, Microsoft made about 345 commits to the upstream project and changed around 64,000 lines of code.”
Microsoft detailed its Postgres investments, including 345 upstream commits to Postgres 19, the public preview launch of HorizonDB, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL enhancements like near-zero downtime scaling and SSD v2. While it mentions AI-enhanced tooling for database development, the talk is primarily database infrastructure news with limited direct AI-industry signal.