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program_whiz 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: It's 2026, Just Use Postgres

Can anyone comment on whether postgres can replace full columnar DB? I see "full text search" but it feels like this is falling a little short of the full power of elastic -- but would be happy to be wrong (one less tech to remember).

fourseventy 8 months ago | [–]

There are several different plugins for postgres that do columnar tables, including the company TigerData which wrote this blog

irishcoffee 8 months ago | [–]

According to the LLM google search result, yes.

Have you looked into it?

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