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  • How Many Shops Has etcd Torched?

    In Database 373 words 2 min

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    How Many Shops Has etcd Torched?

    A few days ago Yingshi Hurricane shared their Pigsty/PostgreSQL HA incident. The root cause? etcd hit its default 2 GB limit because auto-compaction wasn’t enabled. As @ayanamist put it on X: “Let’s see how many companies this stupid 2 GB design can …

    A few days ago Yingshi Hurricane shared their Pigsty/PostgreSQL HA incident. The root cause? etcd hit its default 2 GB limit because auto-compaction wasn’t enabled. As @ayanamist put it on X: “Let’s see how many companies this stupid 2 GB design can …

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

    In Cloud-Exit 734 words 4 min

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    Alicloud’s rds_duckdb: Tribute or Rip-Off?

    A viral post titled “Heavenly ‘PostgreSQL’ Calls Earthly Postgres ‘Little Trash’” hyped up Alicloud RDS’s new rds_duckdb plugin for OLAP and declared that managed RDS PG is noble while open-source Postgres is garbage. That take is ridiculous. I know …

    A viral post titled “Heavenly ‘PostgreSQL’ Calls Earthly Postgres ‘Little Trash’” hyped up Alicloud RDS’s new rds_duckdb plugin for OLAP and declared that managed RDS PG is noble while open-source Postgres is garbage. That take is ridiculous. I know …