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Self-Hosting Dify with PG, PGVector, and Pigsty
2024-06-22 in Postgres
Dify – The Innovation Engine for GenAI Applications Dify is an open-source LLM app development platform. Orchestrate LLM apps from agents to complex AI workflows, with an RAG engine. Which claims to be more production-ready than LangChain. Of …
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PGCon.Dev 2024, The conf that shutdown PG for a week
2024-06-17 in Postgres
PGCon.Dev, once known as PGCon—the annual must-attend gathering for PostgreSQL hackers and key forum for its future direction, has been held in Ottawa since its inception in 2007. This year marks a new chapter as the original organizer, Dan, hands …
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v2.7: Extension Overwhelming
2024-05-20 in Releases
The Pigsty community is thrilled to announce Pigsty v2.7.0, which has 255 unique extensions available, to the free PostgreSQL distribution and RDS alternative. We also have introduced some new docker-compose templates for Odoo, Jupyter, PolarDB, and …
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Postgres is eating the database world
2024-03-04 in Postgres
PostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm. The trend of “Using Postgres for Everything” is no longer limited to a few elite teams but is becoming a …
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v2.6: the OLAP New Challenger
2024-02-22 in Releases
v2.6.0 Highlight Use PostgreSQL 16 as the default major version (16.2) Introduce ParadeDB extensions: pg_analytics, pg_bm25, and pg_sparse Introduce DuckDB and corresponding foreign data wrapper: duckdb_fdw Cloudflare CDN https://repo.pigsty.io and …
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S3: Elite to Mediocre
2023-12-26 in Cloud Exit
Object storage (S3) has been a defining service of cloud computing, once hailed as a paragon of cost reduction in the cloud era. Unfortunately, with the evolution of hardware and the emergence of resources cloud (Cloudflare R2) and open-source …
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Database in K8S: Pros & Cons
2023-12-06 in Database
Whether databases should be housed in Kubernetes/Docker remains highly controversial. While Kubernetes (k8s) excels in managing stateless applications, it has fundamental drawbacks with stateful services, especially databases like PostgreSQL and …
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PostgreSQL Convention 2024
2023-11-27 in Postgres
Background 0x01 Naming Convention 0x01 Design Convention 0x01 Query Convention 0x01 Admin Convention Roughly translated from PostgreSQL Convention 2024 with Google. 0x00 Background No Rules, No Lines The functions of PostgreSQL are very powerful, …
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Reclaim Hardware Bonus from the Cloud
2023-11-16 in Cloud Exit
Hardware is interesting again, with the AI wave fueling a GPU frenzy. However, the intrigue isn’t limited to GPUs —— developments in CPUs and SSDs remain largely unnoticed by the majority of devs. A whole generation of developers is obscured by cloud …
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v2.5: Debian / Ubuntu / PG16
2023-10-24 in Releases
v2.5.0 curl https://get.pigsty.cc/latest | bash Highlights Ubuntu / Debian Support: bullseye, bookworm, jammy, focal Dedicate yum/apt repo on repo.pigsty.cc and mirror on packagecloud.io Anolis OS Support (EL 8.8 Compatible) PG Major Candidate: Use …