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Bohan Zhang is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, working on production database infrastructure. He co-authored “The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most” with Prof. Andy Pavlo at Carnegie Mellon University — cited in the PostgreSQL Wikipedia page. His writing focuses on large-scale systems engineering with PostgreSQL.

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Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT usersscaling-postgresql-openai2026-04-25

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PostgreSQL Scaling, Database Replication, MVCC trade-offs. His angle is pragmatic: push existing tools as far as they go before reaching for distributed complexity.

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