It's 2026, Just Use Postgres

Re:It's 2026, Just Use Postgres by quotemstr on Thursday February 05, 2026 @07:01PM (#46907230)

There's a fascinating gap between PostgreSQL theory and practice here. Elsewhere in this thread, I complained that PostgreSQL extensions can't do everything yet. One thing they can do, however, or ought to be able to do, is provide alternative storage engines. That's the central thing they're supposed to be especially good at providing.

So what did the VACUUM-free, undo-based MVCC storage engine project stall? https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Zheap

Why is there no InnoDB for PostgreSQL?

(Maybe OrioleDB will avoid a similar fate.)

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Re:It's 2026, Just Use Postgres by kiwicopple on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:04PM (#46916048)

> Why is there no InnoDB for PostgreSQL?

(we maintain OrioleDB) Mostly because the TAM API isn't mature enough yet. Hopefully we can upstream more patches so that it's possible

> undo-based MVCC storage engine project stall?

From what I could gather, it ran out of steam simply because of the difficulty of the task. There is a lot of work involved to get the requisite patches into core and the community are (correctly) cautious

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