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Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA

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Post by rcrowley » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:03 PM UTC

tacone wrote: post #19

samlambert wrote: post #2

If anyone has questions about our Postgres product please feel free to ask. I will be around to answer.

Extensions! Which pg extensions are you going to make available?

Many!

https://planetscale.com/docs/postgres/extensions>

Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA

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Post by t43562 » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:06 PM UTC

I don't know why but I can almost never understand American commercial software websites. "what is PlanetScale".....blah, blah blah....WHOOOOSH! No more enlightened than before. Even for products I've worked on - I read the page and can't recognise the thing I'm working on from the description.....

Postgres is involved somehow. I get that.

Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA

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Post by gpi » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:08 PM UTC

t43562 wrote: post #22

I don't know why but I can almost never understand American commercial software websites. "what is PlanetScale".....blah, blah blah....WHOOOOSH! No more enlightened than before. Even for products I've worked on - I read the page and can't recognise the thing I'm working on from the description..... Postgres is involved somehow. I get that.

But it's done at a scale that's planetscale

Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA

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Post by add-sub-mul-div » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:13 PM UTC

attentionstinks wrote: post #14

samlambert wrote: post #2

If anyone has questions about our Postgres product please feel free to ask. I will be around to answer.

How should one decide whether to go with MySQL or Postgres for a greenfield project?

Pre-existing expertise with MySQL and lack of time or inclination to learn something new is the only reason I could think of not to go with Postgres.

Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA

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Post by mousetree » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:14 PM UTC

gpi wrote: post #23

t43562 wrote: post #22

I don't know why but I can almost never understand American commercial software websites. "what is PlanetScale".....blah, blah blah....WHOOOOSH! No more enlightened than before. Even for products I've worked on - I read the page and can't recognise the thing I'm working on from the description..... Postgres is involved somehow. I get that.

But it's done at a scale that's planetscale

is this web scale?

Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA

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Post by rcrowley » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:14 PM UTC

ritzaco wrote: post #17

dangoodmanUT wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PlanetScale isnt' really designed for the "ill give it a go" casual customer that might use supabase It's designed for businesses that need to haul ass

businesses that 'need to haul ass' usually still want to try something out before buying it. That doesn't need to a a free plan, but it's common to offer some trial period to new users. Also totally OK if planetscale doesn't do this and that $39/month _is_ the best way to try them out, I just think it would be good for them to make explicit in the article what I should do if I think I might want it but want to try it…

All our list prices are monthly and our bills are actually even finer-grained - there's no commitment to pay for a database longer than you run it.

If you do decide to operate on PlanetScale long-term, check out https://planetscale.com/pricing> for consumption commitment discounting and other options that might make sense for your company.

Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA

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Post by anthonyronning » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:15 PM UTC

Been running it for a few months now, such a great and reliable product. Congrats on the release!

Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA

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Post by raffraffraff » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:17 PM UTC

mousetree wrote: post #25

gpi wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it's done at a scale that's planetscale

is this web scale?

It's not as fast as dev null though

Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA

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Post by dfee » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:19 PM UTC

t43562 wrote: post #22

I don't know why but I can almost never understand American commercial software websites. "what is PlanetScale".....blah, blah blah....WHOOOOSH! No more enlightened than before. Even for products I've worked on - I read the page and can't recognise the thing I'm working on from the description..... Postgres is involved somehow. I get that.

i'll take the opposite side. i was very impressed with their website.

the very first line:

> The world’s fastest and most scalable cloud databases

the second line:

> PlanetScale brings you the fastest databases available in the cloud. Both our Postgres and Vitess databases deliver exceptional speed and reliability, with Vitess adding ultra scalability through horizontal sharding.

i know exactly what they do. zero fluff. and, i'm now interested.

https://planetscale.com/

Re: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA

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Post by M4v3R » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:20 PM UTC

t43562 wrote: post #22

I don't know why but I can almost never understand American commercial software websites. "what is PlanetScale".....blah, blah blah....WHOOOOSH! No more enlightened than before. Even for products I've worked on - I read the page and can't recognise the thing I'm working on from the description..... Postgres is involved somehow. I get that.

idk in the linked post it literally says this in the 2nd paragraph:

> Our mission is simple: bring you the fastest and most reliable databases with the best developer experience.