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Re:The economics of a Postgres free tier by tristan957 on Friday July 12, 2024 @12:29AM (#40942739)
The free tier has mentioned that auto-suspend isn't configurable on the free tier for every archive I could find on the Wayback Machine.

If you want an always on compute on the free tier, you can just setup a cron job, and every 4 minutes or so send a "SELECT 1" which will keep the database awake.

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Re:The economics of a Postgres free tier by czaxvgdcs on Friday July 12, 2024 @09:48AM (#40945553)
There’s a disconnect here. You are 100% technically correct. Your product’s messaging is confusing. Saying “24/7 compute” makes some people think no cold starts. Enough people in fact that you have to keep correcting them.

Nobody knows your product as well as you do.

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Re:The economics of a Postgres free tier by tristan957 on Friday July 12, 2024 @10:08AM (#40945710)
I'll provide this feedback. Thanks for your explanation.
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