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Highgo Software Co., Ltd.
Company blog · highgo.caprogrammingdata
Highgo Software Co., Ltd. is the company blog at highgo.ca, writing about programming and data. Since 2020, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “How to Analyze a PostgreSQL Crash Dump File”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Corporate site of Highgo, which commenters link as the company behind IvorySQL, an Oracle-compatible PostgreSQL project. Commenters say the company is unknown and try to work out who backs the project.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-16
- How to Analyze a PostgreSQL Crash Dump File2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-12
- PostgreSQL Query Processing Stages2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-29
What Hacker News says?
Did not find any obvious references as to who is backing this project, but it seems to be a Chinese software consultancy. https://www.highgo.ca/ > What’s the point of doing some just for the sake of destroying other people’s business? Apart from any potential ideological reasons related to open source, they are likely planning to support their own business by providing a compelling product.
Comment linking /
on “IvorySQL: Open-source Oracle-compatible PostgreSQL”Submitted Bulk loading into PostgreSQL: Options and comparison as a story · 112 points
HN discussion> It's not clear to me that it really can do that, though. It would seem exceedingly foolhardy to put all your eggs into, what is essentially a compatibility shim layer/plugin, that may or may not actually be compatible with Oracle or all of Oracle. The company behind it also is an unknown (to me at least) - HiGo[1]. So, IvorySQL is FOSS and free (as in beer) - but what happens if some feature doesn't actually work…
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on “IvorySQL: Open-source Oracle-compatible PostgreSQL”Submitted Upcoming feature in PostgreSQL 15 – MERGE statement as a story · 38 points
HN discussionresources: awk: the power and promis of a 40 yr old language (2021) : https://www.fosslife.org/awk-power-and-promise-40-year-old-l... Gawk: Effective AWK programming https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/ gawk-psql : pgsql extension of GNU awk : https://gawkextlib.sourceforge.net/pgsql/pgsql.html gawkextlib : http://shouce.jb51.net/gawk/gawkextlib.html gawk libraries for XML, PostgreSQL : https://osdn.net/project…
Comment linking /2019/10/01/a-guide-to-create-user-defined-extension-modules-to-postgres/
on “Reordering Columns in PostgreSQL”Submitted PostgreSQL Load Balancing: Pgpool Deep Dive as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL Query Processing Stages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL 16 Bi-Directional Logical Replication as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding, Identifying, and dealing with PostgreSQL database corruption – Part 1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Types of Indexes in PostgreSQL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Deeper Look Inside PostgreSQL Visibility Check Mechanism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Comprehensive Overview of PostgreSQL Query Processing Stages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JSON in PostgreSQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Buffer Tag in PostgreSQL (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transactions in PostgreSQL and Their Mechanism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging PostgreSQL on a Remote Machine with Visual Studio Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Various Restoration Techniques Using PostgreSQL Point-in-Time Recovery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgrSQL guide to user-extention module creation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trace Postgres Query Processing Internals with Debugger (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Buffer Tag in PostgreSQL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring SQL command changes in PostgreSQL 14 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Analyze a PostgreSQL Crash Dump File as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Analyze a PostgreSQL Crash Dump File as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Features in PG13 – Deduplication in B-Tree Indexes as a story · 1 points
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