What Postgres can’t do alone, it can tackle with... DuckDB. The pg_duckdb extension shows how two databases can work hand in hand by querying analytical data with DuckDB and joining it with transactional data in Postgres. The extension embeds DuckDB directly into Postgres. DuckDB literally runs inside a Postgres process. How it works (see diagram): 1. An app sends a query to Postgres joining portfolio data (Postgres) with historical market data (lakehouse) 2. pg_duckdb detects lakehouse access and delegates execution to DuckDB 3. DuckDB pulls required market data from the lakehouse, queries Postgres tables, and performs the join 4. Postgres returns the final result to the appshow more

This is how long it takes to load data... from your Prisma Postgres Postgres DB using Accelerate Stay tuned, video drops tomorrow!show more

Big moment for Postgres! Search has always been Postgres'... weak spot, and everyone just accepted it. If you needed a real relevance-ranked keyword search, the default answer was to spin up Elasticsearch or add Algolia and deal with the data sync headaches forever. The problem isn't that Postgres can't do text search. It can. But the built-in `ts_rank` function uses a basic term frequency algorithm that doesn't come close to what modern search engines deliver. So teams end up: - Running a separate Elasticsearch cluster just for search - Building sync pipelines that inevitably drift out of consistency - Paying for managed search services that charge per query - Accepting mediocre search relevance because "good enough" ships faster But this is actually a solvable problem. You can realistically bring industry-standard search ranking directly into Postgres, which eliminates the need for external infra entirely. This exact solution is now available with the newly open-sourced pg_textsearch by Tiger Data - Creators of TimescaleDB, a Postgres extension that brings true BM25 relevance ranking into the database. BM25 is the algorithm behind Elasticsearch, Lucene, and most modern search engines. Now it runs natively in Postgres. Here's what pg_textsearch enables: - True BM25 ranking with configurable parameters (the same algorithm powering production search systems) - Simple SQL syntax: `ORDER BY content 'search terms'` - Works with Postgres text search configurations for multiple languages - Pairs naturally with pgvector for hybrid keyword + semantic search That last point matters a lot for RAG apps. The video below shows this in action, and I worked with the team to put this together. You can now do hybrid retrieval (combining keyword matching with vector similarity) in a single database, without stitching together multiple systems. The syntax is clean enough that you can add relevance-ranked search to existing queries in minutes. pg_textsearch is fully open-source under the PostgreSQL license. You can find a link to their GitHub repo in the next tweet.show more

First try with Vercel's new Postgres database! Was so... quick to set up 🤯 here I've got a collaborative form built with Liveblocks, and I'm having it automatically sync data to the database. More info 🧵show more

Go from single-node Postgres to highly-available Postgres in one... click 🐘 NOT production ready. Every time you use it in production, the Product Engineer who built it starts sweating Try it out and give us feedbackshow more

you can now get data from auth'd APIs with... DuckDB 🤯 ya know, to get your stripe data or whatever (it's not documented yet)show more

Operational databases have long relied on tightly coupled compute... and storage. This architecture creates resource contention and pushes teams to manage infrastructure rather than build. As applications become more real time and automated, the transactional layer needs to adapt. Databricks Lakebase is built for that evolution: • Familiar Postgres semantics for app developers • Compute separated from durable state • Operational data running directly on the lakehouse • Serverless autoscaling (including scale to zero), branching, and recovery to match agent-driven workload Now generally available:show more

Analyzing large vector datasets on Source Cooperative with #DuckDB... 🦆Using the 75 GB National Wetlands Inventory as an example. It used to take me hours to get summary statistics of the dataset, now it takes seconds with DuckDB 🚀 Dataset: Colab: #geospatial #dataviz #opendatashow more

Craft. Not AI. Hero section design behind the scenes... Neon Postgres.show more

the reality when Supabase disappoints with their launch on... Monday shipping just another boring postgres plugin #SupaAssshow more

Postgres 17 is now available on Neon!

Real, actual Postgres right from your browser! Learning a... lot. This is funshow more

Talking with someone the other day that estimated they... had about 25,000 idle connections to Postgres. My actual response to them: "holy shit". They double checked, it was only about 12,000 Same day had a conversation with someone saying they didn't need pgbouncer because of activerecord's connection pooling. Let's dig into connection pooling in Postgres. Prior to Postgres 14 every connection to the database consumed memory, roughly 10MB, it may be slightly less but it still wasn't free. Even beyond Postgres 14 there is still various contention that happens when Postgres starts to use a connection. An application pooler maintains a set of connections and hands them out when needed on the application side. These are idle and real connections against the database that indeed do impact performance negatively. In contrast pgbouncer speaks the wire protocol, waits for the begin part of the transaction and then uses a connection. It more strictly manages how many idle ones it's having instead of per web server you're running. pgbouncer up until recently really needed to be run in transaction mode (which meant disabling prepared statements in your application framework). prepared_statement support in pgbouncer was added recently, and now you don't have to disable. Even when running with an older version of pgbouncer with prepared_statements disabled you'd still see a big performance gain. A quick check to know if you'd benefit from pgbouncer, run this query: SELECT count(*), state FROM pg_stat_activity GROUP BY 2; If you're idle account is high (yes this is dependent on your view, but to me if it's above 25-30 range, and especially if active is until half that) then you'd already start to benefit from pgbouncer. If it's at 10,000 then post haste get pgbouncer in place. Finally, you don't have to not use a framework pooler, they're fine, but don't think it replaces a native Postgres connection pooler.show more

Starting a new project today, building an end to... end system to forecast traffic of flights across cities (starting with Mumbai) The idea is to implement > ingestion service with kafka > data etl with polars > feast for feature store // mlflow for model registry > batch inferencing // dashboard > s3 // postgres for data storage All this orchestrated across multiple DAGs built with Airflow. This year has just been Agents and LLMs all along. Not a bad idea to keep revisiting the traditional format :) Will be posting more of this in the coming days, stay tunedshow more

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new... position as Developer Advocate at Neon - Serverless Postgres!show more

oh shut up Aaron Francis when you change the... website to dark mode it changes the video to dark mode as well what is this dark magic in Mastering Postgres did you build this course platform??show more

Supabase now has Agent Skills! Install it on your... favorite AI agent/ editor to have it follow the best practices for handling Postgres! $ npx skills add supabase/agent-skillsshow more

OpenAI has deployed interactive charts and tables in ChatGPT.... You can now interact with your data and process it with GPT-4o. Here's how it works and what you can do with it:show more

I've been invited by the wonderful TANSTACK team to... help them build out framework-agnostic devtools not for only them, but for everyone! Here's a sneek peak of TanStack router, query, and Prisma Postgres embedded studio running in @tanstack/devtoolsshow more