--- title: Google Cloud: Investing in the future of PostgreSQL description: Google Cloud engineers summarize their PostgreSQL upstream contributions from July–December 2025. Key work includes automatic conflict detection for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/google-cloud-investing-in-the-future-of-postgresql-cvmyfib5h twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Google Cloud: Investing in the future of PostgreSQL | daily.dev og:description: Google Cloud engineers summarize their PostgreSQL upstream contributions from July–December 2025. 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Key work includes automatic conflict detection for active-active replication, logical replication of sequences, a self-deadlock fix in DROP SUBSCRIPTION, pg_upgrade optimizations for large objects and logical slots, and several bug fixes in pgstattuple, dynamic library loading, and WAL flush functions. The team is also developing a conflict log table, parallel pg_dump for large tables, and pipe-based parallel export. Dilip Kumar was selected for the PGConf.dev 2026 Program Committee. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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