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jkatz05

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About jkatz05

Principal Product Manager - Tech @ AWS, focused on PostgreSQL. Previously @ Crunchy Data (VP Platform Engineering) working on PGO, an open source Postgres Operator (https://github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator), and startups in NYC (VenueBook, Paperless Post).

Contributor to PostgreSQL project (Core Team member, on boards of PGCAC & PgUS).

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    git diff REL_16_RC1..REL_16_0 doesn't show any changes that would require a pg_upgrade (at least from my read), so you should be able to upgrade without it.

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    Blog author. I've done some separate testing on storing ~500GB of embeddings (~1B embeddings) in a partitioned table. The partition key was built using IVFFLAT as a "coarse quantiz…

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    Blog author. You can choose to use any distance metrics. One reason cosine similarity is popular (and used) is that for many of these higher dimensional datasets, it gives a better…

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    Blog author. Thanks for the analysis -- I agree that the ANN Benchmark does provide a nice framework for helping with apples-to-apples comparisons. In this case, being able to use …

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    Comment #36089433

    Hey, I helped to write the original article, and I also work at AWS. I'm happy to let you know that PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1 is available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment…

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    Comment #28707330

    Multiranges are one of the lead items in the news release :) I do agree that they are incredibly helpful and will help to reduce the complexity of working with ranges.

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    Comment #28706217

    I'd be curious to see if the concurrency improvements in PostgreSQL 14 help with increasing the threshold for when you need to introduce a connection pooler.

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    PostgreSQL 14 made improvements to this area around indexing: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/btree-implementation.html...

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    "@>" is one of the operators for the GIN index, which is what Postgres uses for the JSONB type. Ref: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/gin-builtin-opclasse...

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    Comment #27222006

    TDE won't be in 14, but there is ongoing work to try to have it ready for 15.