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pgbackrest is the most versatile piece of backup technology for PostgreSQL and in my experience the other products do not come close.

I am therefore quite sad to see this happen. It won't be easy to get feature parity with this great product.

I sincerely hope this is a reversible decision, or perhaps the postgres project could even absorb it into contrib.

feike

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As every year, I try to solve it with 1 sql statement for every challenge, https://gitlab.com/feike/adventofcode/-/tree/master/2024, likely going to get stuck again around day 12/13 or so!

feike

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Many libraries for python, Rust, golang support COPY BINARY.

The times I've tested it, the improvement is very small as compared to plain copy, or copy with CSV, whereas it does require more work and thought upfront to ensure the binary actually works correctly.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-copy.html

feike

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Timescaler here, if you configure the timescaledb.compress_segmentby well, and the data suits the compression, you can achieve 20x or more compression.

(On some metrics data internally, I have 98% reduction in size of the data).

One of the reasons this works is due to only having to pay the per-tuple overhead once per grouped row, which could be as much as a 1000 rows.

The other is the compression algorithm, which can be TimescaleDB or plain PostgreSQL TOAST

https://www.timescale.com/blog/time-series-compression-algor... https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-toast.html

feike

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You should be able nowadays with PG16

    INSERT INTO tbl1 VALUES ($1, $2) \bind 'first value' 'second value' \g

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-psql.html#APP-PS...

For older versions, you can do:

    \set v_x 'first value'
    \set v_y 'second value'
    INSERT INTO tbl1 VALUES (:'v_x', :'v_y');
    \set v_x 'next value'
    INSERT INTO tbl1 VALUES (:'v_x', :'v_y');

feike

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You can put it upright on a piano and put sheet music at eye level. I personally use flowkey + an electrical piano connected through USB. Beats a tablet for me!