alt Hacker News> you use S3 as bottomless storage for Postgres [...] Why are people paying?
It's vastly more complicated to do this efficiently than you might imagine. Postgres' internal architecture is built around a very different set of assumptions (pages, WAL, local disk etc.) than what the S3 API offers.
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amazingamazing • yesterday at 4:24 PM
I get that, but my understanding is that they opened sourced this itself, no?
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Would "essential internal abstraction, with the introduction of read stream APIs" evolve into full storage abstraction?
https://pganalyze.com/blog/5mins-postgres-17-streaming-io