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by malkia 4989 days ago
Today was my first real usage of PostGres (moving one of our assetdb from sqlite to it, and although the update of the db is 5 time slower - well I haven't really done well there, the query later (which is more important) is from 1.5sec to 300msec on one recent example - about 100,000 assets for a video game).

I've also looked briefly about fdw, as a coworker of mine is trying out mongodb for our level editor... Looked at all implementation and read the every fdw code there (except oracle - as it seems most complex, but for good I guess - it checks the pgsql's AST (is that how it's called?) more deeply).

As for redis, maybe this line is relevant:

https://github.com/dpage/redis_fdw/blob/master/redis_fdw.c#L...

yes, for certain cases (I guess "select ") it does "keys ". I'm also trying out redis for our distributed caching in the studio.

So PostGres is my new favourite thing :) - the fdw looks easy to start, but probably hard to master it.

1 comments

> Today was my first real usage of PostGres

Then let us welcome you with some pedantry! Postgres or PostgreSQL, but never PostGres or--FSM forbid--PostGreSQL.

More seriously,

> fdw looks easy to start, but probably hard to master it.

Yep, like a number of Postgres features, such as user-defined types and user-defined aggregates. It's a great system, and not nearly as stuffy or hard to use as you may have heard.

Ah, I will be careful how I write it :) Thanks!