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Re:PostgREST: Providing HTML Content Using Htmx by indigo945 on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @12:54AM (#38692333)
I don't really understand what this project is designed to do. I see a lot of reinvented square wheels, that other Postgres extensions already do better. Another (synchronous) HTTP client library, why? What does the "completed" JSON module even do, what are its aims? Maybe I just don't see the forest for the trees, but I can't figure out the value-add here.
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Re:PostgREST: Providing HTML Content Using Htmx by akoboldfrying on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @02:55AM (#38693009)
I think the main value proposition is its HTTP server, which AFAICT lets you serve web requests from inside the PostgreSQL DB process.

(I'm not sure whether PostgREST also serves requests from inside the process, but another comment mentioned that it's a separate server process. I can see advantages to both ways.)

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