Published on: 2025-05-07 03:00:15
You might have come across discussions or blog posts suggesting that PostgreSQL's built-in full-text search (FTS) struggles with performance compared to dedicated search engines or specialized extensions. A notable recent example comes from Neon's blog post, "Performance Benchmark: pg_search on Neon" (link). In their benchmark, Neon compared query performance on their database platform with their pg_search extension (based on Rust's Tantivy library via pgrx ) against the Postgres built-in fullt
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PostgreSQL Model Context Protocol (PG-MCP) Server A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for PostgreSQL databases with enhanced capabilities for AI agents. Overview PG-MCP is a server implementation of the Model Context Protocol for PostgreSQL databases. It provides a comprehensive API for AI agents to discover, connect to, query, and understand PostgreSQL databases through MCP's resource-oriented architecture. This implementation builds upon and extends the reference Postgres MCP implementat
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Postgres Extension Tutorial Welcome to the Postgres Extension Tutorial. This comprehensive tutorial is designed to provide a step-by-step guide to PostgreSQL extension development. Whether you're new to PostgreSQL or extension development, this tutorial assumes only a basic knowledge of Postgres and the target programming language. It covers various aspects of creating, managing, and distributing extensions for PostgreSQL. After completing this tutorial, you'll have a strong foundation in Post
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TLDR: We spent a few months optimizing PostgreSQL and made it to the Top 10 on ClickBench, a benchmark typically dominated by specialized analytics databases. What’s more, all compute is within Postgres, and all tables are managed directly by PostgreSQL—it’s not a simple wrapper. This is the story of pg_mooncake. What Is ClickBench? ClickBench is the definitive benchmark for real-time analytics databases, originally designed to showcase the performance of ClickHouse. It evaluates databases on
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What’s New The Internals of PostgreSQL PostgreSQL is a well-designed, open-source multi-purpose relational database system which is widely used throughout the world. It is one huge system with the integrated subsystems, each of which has a particular complex feature and works cooperatively with each other. Although understanding of the internal mechanism is crucial for both administration and integration using PostgreSQL, its hugeness and complexity make it difficult. The main purposes of th
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We’re excited to share something special with you: VectorChord-BM25, a new extension designed to make PostgreSQL’s full-text search even better. Whether you’re building a small app or managing a large-scale system, this tool brings advanced BM25 scoring and ranking right into PostgreSQL, making your searches smarter and faster. What’s New? BM25 Scoring & Ranking : Get more precise and relevant search results with BM25, helping you find what matters most. Optimized Indexing : Thanks to the Blo
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Check out the discussion of this post on Hacker News. We have news! EdgeDB is rebranding as Gel, more on that below. Let's talk about something else first. Something fascinating has been happening recently. PostgreSQL seems to be quietly eating the database world. It's not just topping the charts, its adoption momentum is accelerating. What's going on? The answer is right there in the PostgreSQL.org's tagline: The World's Most Advanced Open Source Relational Database It's not just an empty
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 11:47:06
We have news! EdgeDB is rebranding as Gel, more on that below. Let's talk about something else first. Something fascinating has been happening recently. PostgreSQL seems to be quietly eating the database world. It's not just topping the charts, its adoption momentum is accelerating. What's going on? The answer is right there in the PostgreSQL.org's tagline: The World's Most Advanced Open Source Relational Database It's not just an empty marketing boast. It's meaningful. Let's unpack, startin
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