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26 Years Since its Inception, Postgres is Just Getting Started

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In this contributed article, Charly Batista, PostgreSQL Tech Lead at Percona, explores why Postgres is on the rise and why Postgres' brand of open source is good for business.

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Post-Postgres: What’s Driving a Great Migration from the Iconic Database

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this contributed article, Tanya Bragin, product lead at ClickHouse, offers a thesis premised on an industry-wide shift from OLTP databases like Postgres for everything and into OLTP for certain functions and OLAP for others.

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Finding memory leaks in Postgres C code

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MARCH 27, 2024

Although this happened in Postgres, and this post introduces a leak into Postgres to set us up for an investigation, the techniques are broadly useful. Since I had a bit of trouble figuring this all out for the first time, I wanted to share the process I went through. Working with some contrived memory leaks.

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Comparing Postgres Managed Services: AWS, Azure, GCP and Supabase

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MARCH 4, 2024

At PeerDB, we are building a fast and a cost-effective way to replicate data from Postgres to Data Warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Postgres and so on. All our customers run Postgres at the heart of the data stack, running fully ma.

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Postgres Incremental Backup

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JANUARY 11, 2024

We walk through the incremental backup feature committed to the Postgres 17 development branch by Robert Haas. We show an example on our local machine.

Show HN: Pgxman – npm for Postgres extensions

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

pgxman - npm for Postgres. Making it easy to discover, imnplement and manahe Postgres extensions. Making Postgres work for your project.

Transaction Isolation in Postgres

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

Lets talk about transaction isolation and how they work in Postgres, so you can write reliable and performant code with minimal headache. Ever dealt with glitches in a SaaS platform where your actions don't seem to sync up? That's often a transaction isolation issue in databases.

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Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres

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MAY 9, 2024

Like AWS SQS and RSMQ but on Postgres. A lightweight message queue. tembo-io/pgmq

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Exploring versions of the Postgres logical replication protocol

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APRIL 1, 2024

Introduction Logical Replication is one of the many ways a Postgres database can replicate data to other Postgres database (a.k.a Logical replication directly reads from the write-ahead log (WAL), recording every database change, avoiding t.

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My Notes on Gitlab's Postgres Schema Design (2022)

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

I spent some time going over the Postgres schema of Gitlab. GitLab is an alternative to Github. You can self host GitLab since it is an open source DevOps platform. My motivation to understand the schema of a big project like Gitlab was to compare it against schemas I am designing and learn some best…

Implementing system-versioned tables in Postgres

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There's no official support for system-versioned tables in Postgres yet, and the temporal extensions aren't supported on Azure/AWS/GCP. Let's implement it ourselves with 3 triggers and an index.

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Architecture decisions in Neon, a serverless Postgres service

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APRIL 7, 2024

The idea behind Neon is to create a new serverless Postgres service with a modern cloud-native architecture. When building for the cloud it usually is a good idea to separate storage and compute.

AWS

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All the ways to capture changes in Postgres

Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Working with data at rest is where Postgres shines. Fortunately, Postgres comes with a lot of options to make this happen. But what about when you need data in motion? What about when you need to trigger a workflow based on changes to a table?

Postgres vs. File Systems: A Performance Comparison (2022)

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APRIL 1, 2024

One of the guiding Postgres design principles is heavy reliance on features provided by the environment (particularly operating system) and file systems are a prime example of this. Unlike other databases Postgres never supported raw devices that would require implementing a “custom” file system.

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Introduction to Supabase: Postgres Database using Python

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JULY 18, 2022

The post Introduction to Supabase: Postgres Database using Python appeared first on Analytics Vidhya. Supabase claims to be the open-source Firebase alternative and is backed by big tech companies like Yandex, Mozilla, and Coatue. Just like Google Firebase, […].

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An automatic indexing system for Postgres

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The pganalyze Indexing Engine simulates hundreds of possible combinations to recommend missing Postgres indexes using its 'What if?' ' analysis.

An overview of distributed Postgres architectures

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JANUARY 8, 2024

He provides an overview of several options for approaching distributed Postgres workloads and the pros and cons of each approach. Marco just joined Crunchy Data and he reflects on his career in distributed systems in this post.

Zero downtime Postgres upgrades

Hacker News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

How we upgraded from Postgres 11.9 with zero downtime

Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

A managed Postgres offering developed by Supabase and Fly.io

Building a Managed Postgres Service in Rust

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APRIL 8, 2024

Building a managed Postgres service in Rust on Kubernetes

Looking back at Postgres (2019)

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JANUARY 11, 2024

This is a recollection of the UC Berkeley Postgres project, which was led by Mike Stonebraker from the mid-1980's to the mid-1990's. The article was solicited for Stonebraker's Turing Award book, as one of many personal/historical recollections. As a result it focuses on Stonebraker's design ideas and leadership.

A Comprehensive Guide to Heroku Postgres

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JUNE 27, 2022

The post A Comprehensive Guide to Heroku Postgres appeared first on Analytics Vidhya. I previously used Azure, but I had to delete the database after learning. Otherwise, they will deduct money from your Azure balance. […].

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Postgres Language Server: Implementing the Parser

Hacker News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A detailed analysis of our iterations to implement a Parser for Postgres

Optimizing Postgres's autovacuum for high-churn tables

Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For Postgres, this is called MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control). MVCC allows Postgres to provide great performance even when multiple clients could be working with the same table concurrently. Database systems use various techniques to ensure transactionality and performance.

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Parsing the Postgres protocol – logging executed statements

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MARCH 14, 2024

How we built a postgres proxy. Deciphering the postgres protocol to add SSO enabled auditlogging

Tembo Operator: a Rust-Based Kubernetes Operator for Postgres

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JANUARY 17, 2024

At Tembo, weâve been developing an open-source Kubernetes Operator for Postgres. We use this operator to power our managed Postgres platform, Tembo Cloud. This post aims to assist anyone interested in utilizing Kubernetes operators for Postgres or writing Kubernetes operators using Rust.

Choose Postgres Queue Technology

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Introduction Postgres queue tech is a thing of beauty, but far from mainstream.

Postgres Language Server

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AUGUST 6, 2023

A Language Server for Postgres. Contribute to supabase/postgres_lsp development by creating an account on GitHub.

Readyset: A MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Readyset is a MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer that sits in front of existing databases to speed up queries and horizontally scale read throughput. Under the hood, ReadySet caches the results of cached select statements and incrementally updates these results over time as the underlying data changes. readysettech/readyset

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Show HN: PgJQ: Use Jq in Postgres

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MARCH 23, 2024

jq extension for Postgres. Contribute to Florents-Tselai/pgJQ development by creating an account on GitHub.

Pg_lakehouse: Query Any Data Lake from Postgres

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MAY 13, 2024

Postgres for Search and Analytics. Contribute to paradedb/paradedb development by creating an account on GitHub.

Moving a billion Postgres rows on a $100 budget

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Inspired by the 1BR Challenge, I wanted to see how much it would cost to transfer 1 billion rows from Postgres to Snowflake. Moving 1 billion rows is no easy task. The process involves not just the transfer of data but ensuring its integrity, error r.

Running Postgres as a Unikernel

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JUNE 21, 2023

This isn't the first time we took a look at running postgres as a unikernel. A few years ago one of our engineers took a look at how difficult it might be to port it.

When did Postgres become cool?

Hacker News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Craig takes a look at the history of Postgres. From the origins of the project through some of the key production features that make Postgres what it is today.

Pg_later: Asynchronous Queries for Postgres

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AUGUST 18, 2023

Weâre working on asynchronous query execution in Postgres and have packaged the work up in an extension weâre calling pglater. Submit your queries to Postgres now, and come back later and get the queryâs results. If youâve used Snowflakeâs asynchronous queries, then you might already be familiar with this type of feature.

River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres

Hacker News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Introducing River, a Postgres-based job queue designed for resilience and correctness through strong transaction guarantees.

Self-hosting a high-availability Postgres cluster on Kubernetes

Hacker News

JANUARY 2, 2024

Deploying an HA Postgres cluster using Zalando w/ K8s.

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Article: The Wonders of Postgres Logical Decoding Messages

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MARCH 6, 2023

In this article, author Gunnar Morling discusses Postgres database's logical decoding function to retrieve the messages from write-ahead log, process them, and relay them to external consumers, with help of use cases like outbox, audit logs and replication slots. By Gunnar Morling

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Show HN: BSON Extension for Postgres

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JANUARY 15, 2024

postgres support for BSON. Contribute to buzzm/postgresbson development by creating an account on GitHub.

Pg_vectorize: The simplest way to do vector search and RAG on Postgres

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MARCH 6, 2024

The simplest way to orchestrate vector search on Postgres - tembo-io/pg_vectorize

Postgres Audit Tables Saved Us from Taking Down Production

Hacker News

AUGUST 12, 2023

Learn how audit tables helped us avoid a serious incident, and how you can create audit tables in your own Postgres databases.

Database

Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps

Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Build reactive, realtime, local-first apps directly on Postgres.

SVG Images from Postgres

Hacker News

MAY 31, 2023

We are excited to announce a new set of functions to generate svgs from Postgres and PostGIS! This gives you really easy maps, images, or charts directly from your database. Once you start reading through these samples, you'll want to start playing with images from your database.

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How to Listen to Database Changes Using Postgres Triggers in Elixir

Hacker News

JUNE 14, 2023

Postgres Notifications allow you to subscribe to any changes in your database, even if they weren't made by your Elixir application! Let's learn how to set them up!

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Finding memory leaks in Postgres C code

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Show HN: Pgxman – npm for Postgres extensions

Transaction Isolation in Postgres

Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres

Exploring versions of the Postgres logical replication protocol

My Notes on Gitlab's Postgres Schema Design (2022)

Implementing system-versioned tables in Postgres

Architecture decisions in Neon, a serverless Postgres service

All the ways to capture changes in Postgres

Postgres vs. File Systems: A Performance Comparison (2022)

Introduction to Supabase: Postgres Database using Python

An automatic indexing system for Postgres

An overview of distributed Postgres architectures

Zero downtime Postgres upgrades

Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase

Building a Managed Postgres Service in Rust

Looking back at Postgres (2019)

A Comprehensive Guide to Heroku Postgres

Postgres Language Server: Implementing the Parser

Optimizing Postgres's autovacuum for high-churn tables

Parsing the Postgres protocol – logging executed statements

Tembo Operator: a Rust-Based Kubernetes Operator for Postgres

Choose Postgres Queue Technology

Postgres Language Server

Readyset: A MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer

Show HN: PgJQ: Use Jq in Postgres

Pg_lakehouse: Query Any Data Lake from Postgres

Moving a billion Postgres rows on a $100 budget

Running Postgres as a Unikernel

When did Postgres become cool?

Pg_later: Asynchronous Queries for Postgres

River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres

Self-hosting a high-availability Postgres cluster on Kubernetes

Article: The Wonders of Postgres Logical Decoding Messages

Show HN: BSON Extension for Postgres

Pg_vectorize: The simplest way to do vector search and RAG on Postgres

Postgres Audit Tables Saved Us from Taking Down Production

Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps

SVG Images from Postgres

How to Listen to Database Changes Using Postgres Triggers in Elixir

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