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Pigsty Blog Articles on PIGSTY
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Pigsty Blog Articles on PIGSTY is the company blog at pigsty.io, writing about programming and data. Since 2024, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Pigsty – The Floss PG RDS – Pigsty”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Pigsty's PostgreSQL blog post and project pages, which cover Postgres topics and a PostgreSQL distribution. The comments give no judgement of the writing itself.
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.
Pigsty, the FOSS PostgreSQL RDS, self-host PG like a pro, with Monitoring, HA, PITR, IAC, 12 kernels and 600 packaged PG extensions
Most-linked posts?
- Pigsty – The Floss PG RDS – Pigsty4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-10-05
- Database in Kubernetes: Is that a good idea? (2023)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-15
- PostgreSQL is eating the database world2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-19
What Hacker News says?
Also, Pigsty [1]. Feels too bloated for my taste, but I'd love to hear any experience from fellow HNers. [1] https://pigsty.io/
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on “Migrating from AWS to Hetzner”Submitted PostgreSQL is eating the database world as a story · 108 points
HN discussionBTW for anyone who interested, I've packed pg_search and vchord_bm25 extension RPM/DEBs https://pigsty.io/ext/fts/vchord_bm25 https://pigsty.io/ext/fts/pg_search In case anyone want to benchmark by themselves. ;)
Comment linking /ext/fts/pg_search
on “PostgreSQL Full-Text Search: Fast When Done Right (Debunking the Slow Myth)”Submitted The 333 PostgreSQL Extensions available as out-of-box RPM/DEB packages as a story · 9 points
HN discussionPatroni has native HA support for citus horizontal cluster since v3. Which means your can create a HA citus cluster as simple as: https://pigsty.io/docs/pgsql/config/#citus-cluster
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on “Postgres is eating the database world”Submitted Show HN: Self-Hosting Supabase on Your Own Postgres RDS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://pigsty.io/blog/pg/pg-eat-db-world/
Comment linking /blog/pg/pg-eat-db-world/
on “Prolog language for PostgreSQL proof of concept”Submitted When Postgres Falls for DuckDB as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAuthor here. The post here is a 3rd-party translation and may drifts from original wording in a few spots. Azure and OpenAI sent me some corrections today, so I published an updated English version myself here: https://pigsty.io/blog/db/openai-pg/
Comment linking /blog/db/openai-pg/
on “OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level”Submitted Pigsty – The Floss PG RDS – Pigsty as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRDS is like 4~13x than EC2 on AWS, 2.3x than EC2 on aliyun. https://pigsty.io/blog/cloud/rds/ But The real cost lies on EBS, which is around 60x ~ 200x than local NVMe SSD. https://pigsty.io/blog/cloud/ebs/ https://pigsty.io/blog/cloud/bonus/
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on “How much markup does RDS makes on top of EC2?”Submitted Database in Kubernetes: Is that a good idea? (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've set up a supplementary APT/YUM repository, which builds on the official PGDG offerings. This includes 326 extensions for EL distros and 312 for Deb distros, encompassing 121 RPM packages and 133 DEB packages. These packages support PG16 extensions across Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, EL8, and EL9. My efforts have been particularly focused on align OS-specific extensions across the major Linux distributions to ensure…
Comment linking /docs/pgext/usage/repo/
on “The 333 PostgreSQL Extensions available as out-of-box RPM/DEB packages”Submitted Database in Kubernetes: Is that a good idea? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://github.com/pgsty/pigsty https://pigsty.io/
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on “Does Postgres Scale?”Submitted Pigsty – Battery-Included PostgreSQL Distribution as a RDS Alternative as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Database in K8s: Pros and Cons as a story · 1 points
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