Postgres has long been a favorite of developers—but is it also the right foundation for the next generation of AI applications and agentic systems?

In this episode of The Shift Podcast: Agentic Edition, members of the Microsoft Azure Database team unpack a question we’re hearing more frequently as organizations build AI-driven applications: Is Postgres the wave of the future?

The conversation explores how PostgreSQL databases are evolving to support modern workloads, including AI agents, cloud-native applications, and open-source innovation at scale. Our guests discuss what’s changing in the data layer as applications move from traditional CRUD systems to agent‑ ...