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Brian Likes Postgres

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Brian Likes Postgres is a personal blog at brianlikespostgres.com about data and programming. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Cost of a Join”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
8HN people?
2018–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its PostgreSQL posts, such as one on release dates for RDS and Aurora and one on the cost of a join. The comments cite these posts without judging the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Cost of a Join
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-08-14
  2. The Cost of a Join Part 2: Enums and Wider Tables
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://www.brianlikespostgres.com/rds-aurora-release-dates.... I gathered release dates a few weeks ago because I was curious. There aren't that many data points, but 150 days might be a good guess

    Comment linking /rds-aurora-release-dates.html

    on “PostgreSQL 14”
  2. Submitted Cost of a Join as a story · 208 points

    HN discussion
  3. The submitted URL is not stable, it just links to the front page. So for the benefit of later-visitors, here's the direct link: https://www.brianlikespostgres.com/cost-of-a-join.html

    Comment linking /cost-of-a-join.html

    on “Cost of a Join”
  4. Submitted Postgres Query Progress Bar – Monitoring Long Running Queries as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Cost of a Join Part 2: Enums and Wider Tables as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted A Poor Man's Column Oriented Database in PostgreSQL as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Cost of a Join – Part 2: Enums, Wider Tables as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Cost of a Join as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Postgresql: cost of a join as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Cost of a Join as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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