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Re:Amazon Ion by ta1234567890 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @07:59PM (#23922836)
Given Postgres already supports document types, do you know what is the main advantage of using AWS' instead?
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Re:Amazon Ion by nine_k on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:31PM (#23923331)
Does Postgres support column-oriented formats, like Parquet?
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Re:Amazon Ion by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:58PM (#23923459)
> Does Postgres support column-oriented formats, like Parquet?

With an appropriate FDW, sure, and I'm pretty sure I've seen an FDW for parquet specifically, as well as other columnar formats.

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Re:Amazon Ion by nautilus12 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:52PM (#23923422)
To give Amazon more money.

Oh you mean advantage to you? haha...well..

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