<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>DBExplore blog — #postgres-18</title><description>DBExplore engineering posts tagged postgres-18.</description><link>https://www.dbexplore.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>PostgreSQL 18 moved the WAL I/O counters</title><link>https://www.dbexplore.com/blog/postgres-18-moved-the-wal-io-counters/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.dbexplore.com/blog/postgres-18-moved-the-wal-io-counters/</guid><description>pg_stat_wal lost its write and sync columns to pg_stat_io in 18. Nothing errors. The numbers just stop arriving, and most monitoring never notices.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Karthik M</dc:creator><category>postgres-18</category><category>postgres-internals</category><category>monitoring</category></item></channel></rss>