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craigkerstiens

32,048karma·2,512submissions·September 20, 2008
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I work at Snowflake building best in class Postgres via Crunchy Data, building Snowflake Postgres - a multi-cloud Postgres managed service. Previously I ran product at Azure Postgres, product at Citus data, and a number of product areas at Heroku.

You can find more thoughts from me: https://www.craigkerstiens.com

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Pgquery was created by the pganalyze team for their own purposes I believe initially for features like index recommendation tooling, but immediately planned as open source. It is indeed a very high qu…
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Citus works really well *if* you have your schema well defined and slightly denormalized (meaning you have the shard key materialized on every table), and you ensure you're always joining on that…
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Probably as useful is the overview of what pgdog is and the docs. From their docs[1]: "PgDog is a sharder, connection pooler and load balancer for PostgreSQL. Written in Rust, PgDog is fast, reli…
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I appreciate the idea of this a lot but am a bit skeptical. The good thing is this would at least shine a better light on all those that "claim" to be Postgres but really have little to noth…
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