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A developer published a GitHub Gist containing code that decodes kernel panic information embedded in a QR code image, allowing the crash data to be read back from a photo of the code. The gist, posted by user skorotkiewicz, is shareable and embeddable for others to use or adapt.
Michael Malis, creator of the Rust-based Postgres rewrite project pgrust, has found and reported several genuine bugs in PostgreSQL while testing his project, including issues affecting SP-GiST operations, JSONPath results, pgcrypto, the dictionary loader, and money-type overflow handling. The author of this piece notes pgrust's main goal is improved performance, not just a rewrite, and vouches for Malis's credibility based on personal familiarity with his work.