Pigsty Blog Articles

Posts in 2025
  • Postgres Extension Day - See You There!

    April 09, 2025 in PostgreSQL

    Postgres Extension Day - See You There!

    The annual PostgreSQL developer conference will be held in Montreal in May. Like the first PG Con.Dev, there's also an additional dedicated event - Postgres Extensions Day

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    The annual PostgreSQL developer conference will be held in Montreal in May. Like the first PG Con.Dev, there's also an additional dedicated event - Postgres Extensions Day

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  • OrioleDB is Coming! 4x Performance, Eliminates Pain Points, Storage-Compute Separation

    April 06, 2025 in PostgreSQL

    OrioleDB is Coming! 4x Performance, Eliminates Pain Points, Storage-Compute Separation

    A PG kernel fork acquired by Supabase, claiming to solve PG's XID wraparound problem, eliminate table bloat issues, improve performance by 4x, and support cloud-native storage. Now part of the Pigsty family.

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    A PG kernel fork acquired by Supabase, claiming to solve PG's XID wraparound problem, eliminate table bloat issues, improve performance by 4x, and support cloud-native storage. Now part of the Pigsty family.

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  • OpenHalo: MySQL Wire-Compatible PostgreSQL is Here!

    April 03, 2025 in PostgreSQL

    OpenHalo: MySQL Wire-Compatible PostgreSQL is Here!

    What? PostgreSQL can now be accessed using MySQL clients? That's right, openHalo, which was open-sourced on April Fool's Day, provides exactly this capability and has now joined the Pigsty kernel family.

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    What? PostgreSQL can now be accessed using MySQL clients? That's right, openHalo, which was open-sourced on April Fool's Day, provides exactly this capability and has now joined the Pigsty kernel family.

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  • PGFS: Using Database as a Filesystem

    March 21, 2025 in PostgreSQL

    PGFS: Using Database as a Filesystem

    Leverage JuiceFS to turn PostgreSQL into a filesystem with PITR capabilities!

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    Leverage JuiceFS to turn PostgreSQL into a filesystem with PITR capabilities!

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  • Pigsty v3.4: PITR Enhancement, Locale Best Practices, Auto Certificates

    March 18, 2025 in Pigsty

    Pigsty v3.4: PITR Enhancement, Locale Best Practices, Auto Certificates

    Pigsty v3.4 adds pgBackRest backup monitoring, cross-cluster PITR restore, automated HTTPS certificates, locale best practices, and full-platform IvorySQL and Apache AGE support.

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    Pigsty v3.4 adds pgBackRest backup monitoring, cross-cluster PITR restore, automated HTTPS certificates, locale best practices, and full-platform IvorySQL and Apache AGE support.

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  • Database Planet Collision: When PG Falls for DuckDB

    March 12, 2025 in Database

    Database Planet Collision: When PG Falls for DuckDB

    If you ask me, we’re on the brink of a cosmic collision in database-land, and Postgres + DuckDB is the meteor we should all be watching.

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    If you ask me, we’re on the brink of a cosmic collision in database-land, and Postgres + DuckDB is the meteor we should all be watching.

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  • Alicloud’s rds_duckdb: Tribute or Rip-Off?

    March 06, 2025 in Cloud

    Alicloud’s rds_duckdb: Tribute or Rip-Off?

    Does bolting DuckDB onto RDS suddenly make open-source Postgres ‘trash’? Business and open source should be symbiotic. If a vendor only extracts without giving back, the community will spit it out."

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    Does bolting DuckDB onto RDS suddenly make open-source Postgres ‘trash’? Business and open source should be symbiotic. If a vendor only extracts without giving back, the community will spit it out."

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  • Comparing Oracle and PostgreSQL Transaction Systems

    February 27, 2025 in Database

    Comparing Oracle and PostgreSQL Transaction Systems

    The PG community has started punching up: Cybertec’s Laurenz Albe breaks down how Oracle’s transaction system stacks against PostgreSQL.

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    The PG community has started punching up: Cybertec’s Laurenz Albe breaks down how Oracle’s transaction system stacks against PostgreSQL.

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  • Pigsty v3.3: 404 Extensions, Turnkey Apps, New Website

    February 20, 2025 in Pigsty

    Pigsty v3.3: 404 Extensions, Turnkey Apps, New Website

    Pigsty v3.3 pushes available extensions to 404, adds turnkey app deployment with app.yml, delivers Certbot integration for automated HTTPS, and launches a redesigned website.

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    Pigsty v3.3 pushes available extensions to 404, adds turnkey app deployment with app.yml, delivers Certbot integration for automated HTTPS, and launches a redesigned website.

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  • PostgreSQL Ecosystem Frontier Developments

    January 24, 2025 in PostgreSQL

    PostgreSQL Ecosystem Frontier Developments

    Sharing some interesting recent developments in the PG ecosystem.

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    Sharing some interesting recent developments in the PG ecosystem.

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