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Peter Eisentraut
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Peter Eisentraut's personal blog at peter.eisentraut.org covers programming and data. Since 2015, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “SQL: 2023 is finished: Here is what's new”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Peter Eisentraut’s blog
Most-linked posts?
- SQL: 2023 is finished: Here is what's new7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2023-04-04
- Why PostgreSQL major version upgrades are hard5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-11-26
- The reverts will continue until morale improves4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-10-13
- /blog/2023/04/04/sql-2023-is-finished-here-is-whats-new2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-14
- The history of replication in PostgreSQL2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-04
- How to submit a patch by email (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-09
- /blog/2023/04/18/postgresql-and-sql-20232 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-01
- All Kinds of Licenses2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-29
- Waiting for SQL:202y: Stockholm (BMA) Meeting Report2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-30
- The history of replication in PostgreSQL (2015)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-23
What Hacker News says?
Graph databases aren't particularly relevant to a novel syntax for relational databases. The part of the related standard that is about relational databases (SQL/PGQ) demands that every table hold either edges or vertices, but not both [1], which is very limiting. [1] https://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2023/04/04/sql-2023-is-fin...
Comment linking /blog/2023/04/04/sql-2023-is-finished-here-is-whats-new
on “Simplifying Join Syntax”Submitted The reverts will continue until morale improves as a story · 235 points
HN discussionA co-worker of mine actually wrote on replication in postgres recently: http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2015/03/03/the-history-of-r...
Comment linking /blog/2015/03/03/the-history-of-replication-in-postgresql/
on “Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB”Submitted How about trailing commas in SQL? as a story · 227 points
HN discussionThis technical arguments in this article aren't that coherent in my view. I'm not sure if this is the reporter's fault or some Couchbase marketing film-flam (err, which would still end up being the reporter's fault.) It could be me I suppose; judge for yourself: The first half suggests Chamberlain ("SQL co-creator") supports NoSQL which avoids the relational model and in many cases is oriented around more of a key-v…
Comment linking /blog/2023/04/04/sql-2023-is-finished-here-is-whats-new
on “SQL co-creator embraces NoSQL”Submitted The new PostgreSQL 17 make dist as a story · 206 points
HN discussionHTTPS -> https://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2023/04/04/sql-2023-is-fin...
Comment linking /blog/2023/04/04/sql-2023-is-finished-here-is-whats-new
on “SQL: 2023 is finished: Here is what's new”Submitted Waiting for SQL:202y: Group by All as a story · 59 points
HN discussionAnd here is the article on the status of SQL:2023 support in PostgreSQL https://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2023/04/18/postgresql-and-...
Comment linking /blog/2023/04/18/postgresql-and-sql-2023
on “SQL: 2023 Has Been Released”Submitted When to split patches for PostgreSQL as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSee also [1] for how this (might) relate to PostgreSQL In particular it is nice to see that a core dev views JSON dot accessing and PCQ as "sensible" future additions to Postgres. [1] - https://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2023/04/18/postgresql-and-...
Comment linking /blog/2023/04/18/postgresql-and-sql-2023
on “SQL: 2023 Has Been Released”Submitted PostgreSQL Supported Platforms over Time as a story · 31 points
HN discussionThe major news are: - SQL/PGQ - A Graph Query Language - JSON improvements (a JSON type, simplified notations) Peter Eisentraut gives a nice overview here: http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2023/04/04/sql-2023-is-fini...
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on “SQL: 2023 Has Been Released”Submitted SQL: 2023 is finished: Here is what's new as a story · 19 points
HN discussionGuide to ANY_VALUE() Functionality in PostgreSQL 16. Vik Fearing, PostgreSQL Expert at EDB has contributed to add this functionality as per the SQL:2023 standard (T626). Peter Eisentraut, Chief Engineer at EDB and Core Team Member of PostgreSQL, actively worked on the SQL:2023 standard and has published details about it in his blog here: http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2023/04/04/sql-2023-is-fini... . For more enha…
Comment linking /blog/2023/04/04/sql-2023-is-finished-here-is-whats-new
on “SQL: 2023 ANY_VALUE (T626) implemented in PostgreSQL 16”Submitted Have problems with PostgreSQL? Try using Hive (2015) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to submit a patch by email (2023) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Waiting for Vectors in SQL:202y as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why PostgreSQL major version upgrades are hard as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why PostgreSQL major version upgrades are hard (2024) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why PostgreSQL major version upgrades are hard as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The history of replication in PostgreSQL as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The reverts will continue until morale improves as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why PostgreSQL major version upgrades are hard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Compilers, New Timings as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The history of replication in PostgreSQL (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Replication in PostgreSQL (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL Performance with Different Compilers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What was the longest time between 2 commits to Postgres? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GQL: 2024 Is Out as a story · 2 points
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