Postgres
Coverage of Postgres in the Nexus archive.
- Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
Postgres has been rewritten in Rust and is now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests. The project is hosted on GitHub and has gained attention on Hacker News with 21 points and 15 comments.
- Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire
Streambed is a tool developed by viggy28 that streams Postgres data to Iceberg on S3 using the Postgres wire protocol. It was showcased on Hacker News with 11 points and no comments as of the article's publication.
- AI and data sovereignty in Postgres: An answer to the datacenter energy crisis
The global expansion of datacenters faces energy and infrastructure challenges, with communities debating economic benefits against environmental impacts. AI-driven datacenters consume 1.5% of global electricity, projected to double by 2030. Enterprises aim to integrate AI, data, and energy strategies as costs and demand rise.
- Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents
Ktx is an open-source executable context layer designed to improve data agent reliability by addressing SQL accuracy issues. It combines Markdown wiki pages for business context and YAML files for queryable definitions, supporting warehouses like BigQuery and Snowflake. The tool aims to resolve common errors like stale data references and incorrect join logic.
- Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration
Ardent introduces a database sandbox solution that allows coding agents to test their work in a production-like environment without affecting the production database. The solution uses logical replication and ddl triggers to enable usage on any hosted Postgres DB. Ardent aims to make every data infrastructure platform 'cloneable' for testing purposes.
- Spent 3 months building a Solana indexer and I'm still missing slots. What am I doing wrong?
The author spent 3 months building a Solana indexer but is still missing slots and struggling with scalability, leading to increased AWS bills. They are considering abandoning their own infrastructure and paying a data provider instead. The author is seeking advice from others who have run production Solana indexers.
- Does Postgres Scale?
The article benchmarks workflow execution scalability on Postgres, questioning its ability to handle large-scale operations. It links to a blog post by dbos.dev and a Hacker News discussion with no comments.