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Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL provides the necessary building blocks for you to combine and create your own search engine for full-text search. Let's see how far we can take it.
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Pgroll: zero-downtime, reversible schema migrations for Postgres
We are excited to ship the first version of pgroll, a command line tool that offers safe and reversible schema migrations for PostgreSQL
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Introducing pgzx: create PostgreSQL extensions using Zig
We are excited to introduce pgzx, a framework for creating Postgres extensions using the Zig programming language.
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Full-text search engine with PostgreSQL (part 2): Postgres vs. Elasticsearch
Using PostgreSQL as a full-text search engine is tempting because it requires less infrastructure. But is its set of search-related features enough to compete with the Lucene based alternatives?