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Issue 656 - Postgres vs. everything else

Postgres Is Enough

https://postgresisenough.dev/

Postgres is Enough: How Postgres Can Replace Other Things — A perennial topic in the Postgres world is figuring out just how many other systems (like Redis, Elasticsearch and Kafka, say) Postgres can step in for. This directory rounds up 89 extensions and tools that help Postgres do just that.

about 1 month ago

ParadeDB — Search without a second system

https://paradedb.com/

Search Without a Second System — One Postgres for your application data, full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregations. ParadeDB is an open-source Postgres extension that keeps pace with Elasticsearch.

#postgres #search #analytics #etl #elasticsearch #olap

about 1 month ago

The Case for Co-Locating Workflow State with Your Data | DBOS

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/co-locating-workflow-state-with-your-data

Postgres Transactions are a Distributed Systems Superpower — Should workflow state live in a separate orchestrator, or in Postgres alongside your data? DBOS argues the latter: each step's checkpoint and database updates commit in one transaction, giving exactly-once semantics for those updates with no idempotency bookkeeping.

about 1 month ago

Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler - PgDog

https://pgdog.dev/blog/why-yet-another-connection-pooler

Why PgDog Built Yet Another Postgres Connection Pooler — Reducing user tradeoffs and providing a seamless experience, largely. For example, unlike PgBouncer, it keeps SET and LISTEN/NOTIFY working in transaction mode.

about 1 month ago

Replication Deadlock Bug in Current Postgres Releases 14-16

https://www.credativ.de/en/blog/postgresql-en/replication-deadlock-bug-in-current-postgres-releases-14-16/

🚨 A Replication Deadlock Bug in Current Postgres 14-16 Releases — A report that v14.23, v15.18, and v16.14 introduced a regression that can lead to a MultiXactOffsetSLRU deadlock during transaction log replay in some circumstances.

about 1 month ago

LOAD "PL/CBMBASIC",8,1: Commodore 64 BASIC for PostgreSQL

https://thombrown.blogspot.com/2026/07/load-plcbmbasic81-commodore-64-basic.html

PL/CBMBASIC: Commodore 64 BASIC for Postgres — I like to slip a fun item in every now and then, and it doesn't get more fun than writing Postgres functions in a 44-year-old programming language.. does it? 😅

about 1 month ago

GitHub - tinbase/tinbase: Supabase-compatible backend in a single binary — real Postgres with RLS, no Docker. Works with supabase-js unchanged.

https://github.com/tinbase/tinbase

Tinbase: A Supabase-Compatible Backend in a Single Binary — An experiment that provides a local Supabase-like dev experience without Docker using a pure-JS backend built on PGlite and pg-mem. A sort of mini, local-only Postgres wrapped in the same APIs as Supabase proper, so supabase-js works unchanged.

about 1 month ago

pglayers - PostgreSQL Extensions as Docker Layers

https://pglayers.github.io/

pglayers: Postgres Extensions as Docker Layers — The official Postgres Docker images ship with few extensions and adding more can become tricky. pglayers tries to make this easier by layering extensions atop the official image.

about 1 month ago