postgrex VS realtime

Now we can replicate the same behavior in Elixir and Postgrex within IEx (Elixir's interactive shell).

But I found a problem when the data type is not supported by postgrex. In this case, you can either have to write a custom postgrex extension like the example here. In postgrex GitHub repo, there are many examples for common data types, but XML is missing there.

It sounds like Supabase is pulling out the WAL listening bits into its own library?

https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-realtime-multiplayer-gene...

If so, y'all might want to look into: https://github.com/elixir-ecto/postgrex/blob/master/lib/post...

You can LISTEN/NOTIFY. Or you can use logical replication and a custom subscriber.[1] Supabase uses the latter.[2]

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/logical-replication....

[2]: https://github.com/supabase/realtime

Supabase Realtime is great for building collaborative applications. You can receive database changes over websockets, store and synchronize data about user presence, and broadcast any data to clients via "channels".

We use :telemetry to collect usage data per tenant for Supabase Realtime.

We do this for rate limiting but it also makes it very easy for us to attach a listener (https://github.com/supabase/realtime/blob/main/lib/realtime/...) which ships these (per second) aggregates to BigQuery (via Logflare), which then the billing team can aggregate further to display and actually bill people with.

Yo :D This is what Supabase Realtime does!

https://github.com/supabase/realtime

Spin up a Supabase database and then subscribe to changes with WebSockets.

You can play with it here once you have a db: https://realtime.supabase.com/inspector/new

Every project is a Postgres database, wrapped in a suite of tools like Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime and Vectors, and encompassed by API middleware and logs.

Where can I learn more about this? I've been thinking of trying to integrate Supabase Realtime (https://github.com/supabase/realtime) into my Django app (without the rest of Supabase), but I'd also like to keep things even simpler if possible.

Also, what was the reason not to go with Gevent?

I believe #2 was the main driver for the supabase team to build their real-time component: https://github.com/supabase/realtime

Background/announcement: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-realtime-multiplayer-gene...

As a minor note, one of the linked articles talks about having used RethinkDB for its changefeeds and I made a mental note a bit back that if I ever want that supabase's realtime ( https://github.com/supabase/realtime ) provides something rather like that atop Postgres and I should try that before doing anything clever.