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It looks like pgBackRest will likely continue, multiple companies are stepping up with sponsorships. Mentioning this just in case anyone is making plans to move away, it's probably…

I do think that as service providers we now have a new "attack vector" to be worried about. Up to now, having an API that deletes the whole volume, including backups, might have be…

I agree and hope this is the case for anything serious enough. I also don't see this changing any time soon. There are ways to give safe access to the data, at least read-only, tha…

Looks interesting! Do you have ClickBench results or similar? > Everything in core, no extensions. HTTP(S), S3 (anonymous public reads), Avro, Excel, Arrow, and SQLite read through…

I will follow this one for sure. There are a few more companies with the extremely ambitious goal of "a better AWS", and I am interested in the various strategies they take to appr…

Nice article! From what I understand, you computed the bloom values in the application layer, right? Would https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/bloom.html have worked as well?

Got it, yes, I've seen in the other comment that you're referring to the new Postgres 18 feature. If that works for you in local dev, so much the better :)

Yes, for sure, and stuff like this is really useful when rebalancing storage nodes, for example. My point is that for the use case of offering a Postgres service with CoW branching…

We have an overview on how it works here: https://xata.io/blog/open-source-postgres-branching-copy-on-...

> You don’t need anything but vanilla pg and a supported file system to do it anymore; just clone the database using a template and a newish version of Postgres. Are you referring …

Xata is open source btw (open core): https://github.com/xataio/xata

For context for the others, I think you are referring to this blog post: https://xata.io/blog/open-source-postgres-branching-copy-on-... (in particular the "The key is in the stora…

Hi HN, This is Tudor from Xata. You can think of Xata as an open-source, self-hosted, alternative to Aurora/Neon. Highlight features are: - Fast copy-on-write branching. - Automati…