--- title: The future is Postgres with Craig Kerstiens (Changelog... description: Craig Kerstiens joins this podcast episode to discuss the expanding Postgres ecosystem. The conversation covers Postgres's deliberately boring core design... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-is-postgres-with-craig-kerstiens-changelog-interviews-688--m7liktebu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The future is Postgres with Craig Kerstiens (Changelog Interviews #688) | daily.dev og:description: Craig Kerstiens joins this podcast episode to discuss the expanding Postgres ecosystem. The conversation covers Postgres's deliberately boring core design... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-is-postgres-with-craig-kerstiens-changelog-interviews-688--m7liktebu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/M7LIktebu.png og:image:alt: The future is Postgres with Craig Kerstiens (Changelog Interviews #688) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The future is Postgres with Craig Kerstiens (Changelog Interviews #688) **[Changelog](https://daily.dev/sources/changelog)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Craig Kerstiens joins this podcast episode to discuss the expanding Postgres ecosystem. The conversation covers Postgres's deliberately boring core design paired with a thriving extension ecosystem, plus pg_lake, which brings DuckDB and Iceberg integration into Postgres. Topics also include the pain points of ETL, what Kerstiens is watching for in Postgres 19, and the impact of AI on open source maintainers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is pg_lake and how does it relate to DuckDB and Iceberg? pg_lake is a Postgres extension-related project that brings DuckDB and Iceberg capabilities into Postgres, part of the broader trend of expanding Postgres through its extension ecosystem rather than changing its core. It reflects how Postgres keeps a deliberately boring core while extensions add major new capabilities like lakehouse-style data formats. _Engineers evaluating Postgres for analytics workloads can follow extension developments like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [PostgresEDI September 2026 Meetup Recap: tiering to Iceberg, and Postgres from Nuxt](https://daily.dev/posts/postgresedi-september-2026-meetup-recap-tiering-to-iceberg-and-postgres-from-nuxt-qrzx2g4z3) · Planet PostgreSQL · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [DuckLake: The Lakehouse That's Just SQL and Parquet](https://daily.dev/posts/ducklake-the-lakehouse-that-s-just-sql-and-parquet-vyaa3jmht) · Planet Python · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql), [#etl](https://daily.dev/tags/etl), [#duckdb](https://daily.dev/tags/duckdb) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-is-postgres-with-craig-kerstiens-changelog-interviews-688--m7liktebu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The future is Postgres with Craig Kerstiens (Changelog Interviews #688)","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-is-postgres-with-craig-kerstiens-changelog-interviews-688--m7liktebu","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-is-postgres-with-craig-kerstiens-changelog-interviews-688--m7liktebu"},"datePublished":"2026-10-28T17:38:53.300Z","dateModified":"2026-10-28T18:04:29.434Z","description":"Craig Kerstiens joins this podcast episode to discuss the expanding Postgres ecosystem. 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