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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.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Peter Eisentraut's blog for overviews of the SQL:2023 standard and PostgreSQL's support for it, plus posts on Postgres replication history.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- Described as a nice overview of the SQL:2023 changes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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
- 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 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/2023/04/04/sql-2023-is-finished-here-is-whats-new2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-14
- Replication in PostgreSQL (2015)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-23
- /blog/2023/04/18/postgresql-and-sql-20232 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-01
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...
Comment linking /blog/2023/04/04/sql-2023-is-finished-here-is-whats-new
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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