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Re:4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) on Monday February 02, 2026 @10:56AM (#46857431)
Me too!
Re:Show HN: OrioleDB Beta12 Features and Benchmarks on Saturday July 19, 2025 @01:00AM (#44612720)
Great work!!
They are getting shittier and shittier
I was wondering if there’s a way to automatically measure calorie intake—like some kind of biosensor that could be worn on the body. Companies are investigating this I bet!
Re:PostgreSQL 16 Released on Thursday September 14, 2023 @01:18PM (#37511850)
Congratulations to all PG community!
Can this be used in a way similar to “supercomputers” proposed for Haskel?
Re:Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @12:20AM (#36134413)
coW? So devs can have their ephemeral databases in seconds at no cost? Only the reads and writes they use and the “delta” storage of their thin clone?

Bitenporal support?

Smart anonymization (like Tonic.AI)?

Looking forward to hearing the announcements

Re:GPT-4 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @11:28PM (#35163451)
Even if a GTP-X will be able to get my description of a system and because it understands the industry lingo and practices create a extremely optimized RUST code, why would we need systems like apps and webapps (like internet bankings) in a world where we all have access to GTP-X?

Like program a KUKA robot to manufacture typewriters in 2023.

How "computer systems" will look like?

Re:PostgreSQL 15 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:37PM (#33198326)
Congrats PG team and community
Re:Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @02:33PM (#32754415)
Interesting. I am personally more interested in precise and diverse health sensors, that can measure my health in real time.
Updated! Thanks
I have seen this presentation from a company that used PG Full Text search for a pretty complex use case. Interesting -> http://matheusoliveira.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/pr... (updated thanks to ddevault)
Is this the start of a future where we can write high level code (Idris, Agda, Coq) and the resulting code will run as fast (and as safe) as RUST? Interesting.
Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of V8 isolates? on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:29PM (#31759038)
1. Shorter cold starts 2. Secure environment 3. Heavily tested in production

These are good PROS of Isolate for Serverless Computing, IMHO.

Re:The Future Database on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:37PM (#31483220)
Great list. As I can add anything here, I will say:

- Bitemporal support OOTB (storage would be more expensive, as temporal data needs more disk space)

- CoW capabilities OOTB, so it would be super easy (fast and cheap) to create ephemeral database for development purpose.

- Charge per request (ms of reads, ms of writes) - for the sake of being more specific about serverless.

- AI capabilities that detects the use of the database and suggests indexes or other tweaks to make the database as fast as possible (and cheap), even if schema changes, database size increases or query patterns change

- PostgreSQL support (and all its extensions... I know that's a hard one as PS is based on MySQL)

- OOTB capabilities for Masking and/or anonymizing of data (PCI, PII, etc)

Thanks

Re:Speeding up sort performance in Postgres 15 on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:28AM (#31448793)
orioleDB is another one
Re:AWS Aurora Serverless V2 on Friday April 22, 2022 @03:52AM (#31119277)
Great work Amazon Web Services (AWS)! I am already waiting for V3.... Wish list:

- Pay per transaction (Reads, Writes) + Storage, instead of per resource allocation (some competitors are offering this already).

- No need for VPC, just like DynamoDB does today.

- Multi-region sync replication (no data loss in case a region goes down), but on a per-table base.

- Self-tuning capabilities, like ottertune and postgres.ai

- Unlimited Fast Database Cloning copies for non-production environments (COW)

- Transparent connection pooler (useful when using Lambda)

Re:Postgres 15 will support MERGE on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @09:13AM (#30842108)
Many great things to be part of PG 15. Congratulations
Re:AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:23AM (#30790188)
Thanks! It would be good to check it again with Graviton3.
Thanks. Reshape is quite promising.
The US controls the world. It is above any regulation or international law. Other countries have to comply with UN and other agencies... not the US. US will always find an excuse to do whatever is best for their oligarchies (AKA Transnational Corporations).
Re:AWS Lambda adds supports for .NET 6 on Sunday February 27, 2022 @05:38PM (#30493479)
Congrats to Lambda team! Keep evolving the FaaS platform, especially regarding Cold Starts.
Re:OrioleDB – solving some PostgreSQL wicked problems on Friday February 25, 2022 @08:34AM (#30467051)
That's amazing! Thanks for making this open source.

Could this be extended to support temporal (and Bitemporal) tables? Some storage level optimizations could benefit performance and easy of use for use cases temporarily is important, like financial services systems.

Thanks

Re:PostgreSQL Schema Change Guide on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:45PM (#30461942)
Could reshape help with temporal table schema migration? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71131800/how-to-avoid-br...
Re:PostgreSQL Schema Change Guide on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:40PM (#30461889)
Reshape is super promising! Great work!!
Re:Optimizing Postgres text search with trigrams on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @09:45AM (#30441518)
Thanks for sharing this! Great stuff.

Also, there is this presentation that might be complementary to the one shared here.

http://matheusoliveira.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/pr...

The presentation above is really good for people interested in FTS on PostgreSQL. The company behind this presentation does tens of thousands of sophisticated searches per second. And it's 100% powered by PostgreSQL.

Thanks

Re:Cloud Functions 2nd Generation (in public preview) on Thursday February 17, 2022 @12:30PM (#30375975)
First and most important thing: Congrats to the Cloud Functions team for moving GCF forward.

Second: Please, keep working on reducing the cold start times, min-instance is useful, but it is kind of a hack IMHO.

Third: Native support for RUST would be amazing.

Re:PostgreSQL query performance bottlenecks on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:29AM (#29979631)
Wow, is there any public list or documentation about these common cases and how to make them faster in PG? I would expect the PG query optimizer to fix this automatically, but as it doesn't, having this documentation would be of great use for many developers. Thanks for sharing!
Promising and innovative tool indeed. I wonder why the big PG users and players are not investing in this (potentially) game changer tool. (AWS, zalando, gitlab, yugabyte, edb to name a few). Great work!!
Re:Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database (2018) on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:10PM (#29925217)
I see it now that it's a 2018 article. Makes sense!

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