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Re:Making Postgres Bloom by danneu on Thursday July 30, 2015 @04:04PM (#9977631)
Classic premature optimization.

"Just add another database!"

Re:Making Postgres Bloom by mycelium on Friday July 31, 2015 @12:14AM (#9979889)
From the article:

> Some of you, who have ventured deep into the bowels of databases, will probably point out that doing something like this in a real setup is committing concurrency suicide. All updates to the same row will essentially be executed serially which is no bueno if you're trying to build a performant data pipeline.

Re:Making Postgres Bloom by pbnjay on Thursday July 30, 2015 @08:28PM (#9979210)
LOL. Versus implementing bloom filters in a relational database?
Re:Making Postgres Bloom by Gigablah on Friday July 31, 2015 @12:30AM (#9979930)
"Let's not over-engineer though."

Implements bloom filters