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		paulddraper on June 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Postgres 17: Streaming I/O for sequential scans an... MySQL has had pluggable storage since at least 2010. A decade and a half later, PostgreSQL still doesn't (although I believe some forks do). PostgreSQL is a good piece of software. And really good pieces of software -- git, Linux, Redis, tend to collect ecosystems.

markoman on June 14, 2024 [–]

Since Postgres 12, there's been support for “Pluggable Storage” where you could even define different storage engines for tables individually. Think of the Oriole extension which bought by Supabase in April 2024.

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