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Walking with the Elephants
Personal blog · ashutoshpg.blogspot.comdataprogramming
Walking with the Elephants is a personal blog at ashutoshpg.blogspot.com about data and programming. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Efficiency of a Sparse Hash Table”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter links this blog's posts on SQL/PGQ, the graph query language for Postgres, as background on graph querying coming to Postgres. The commenter's own remarks don't judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My encounter with open source databases.
Most-linked posts?
- Efficiency of a Sparse Hash Table2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-11
What Hacker News says?
I thought this was going to be about querying a Postgres table with a graph query language (SQL/PGQ). Indeed this is coming to Postgres eventually. https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a855795d-e697-4fa... https://ashutoshpg.blogspot.com/2024/04/dbaag-with-sqlpgq.ht...
Comment linking /2024/04/dbaag-with-sqlpgq.html
on “Representing Graphs in PostgreSQL”Submitted Efficiency of a Sparse Hash Table as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Efficiency of a Sparse Hash Table as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding disk spills due to PostgreSQL's logical replication as a story · 2 points
HN discussion