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Re:PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small air... by woooooo on Friday March 29, 2024 @09:23AM (#39863802)
It's much less emphasized compared to MySQL, I didn't even know about it until your comment, and search results are sparse.

MySQL has had multiple viable storage engines for most of its existence. MyISAM, InnoDB and more recently MyRocks.

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Re:PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small air... by TurningCanadian on Friday March 29, 2024 @10:01AM (#39864208)
You might be able to argue that Postgres' foreign data is a different form of pluggable storage engine. E.g. you can even use a CSV file as a backing store for a table with file_fdw.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-foreign-data.htm...

https://dbaclass.com/article/how-to-access-csv-files-on-file...

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Re:PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small air... by kreetx on Saturday March 30, 2024 @03:03AM (#39872507)
Someone should do an experience report on adding the same storage system to both databases.

What you say looks powerful but Facebook added their MyRocks to MySQL.

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