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walex
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The Guide to PostgreSQL Data Change Tracking
The WAL CDC approach: https://github.com/cpursley/walex?tab=readme-ov-file#publica...
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Elixir Nitpicks
What do you mean testing with processes?
I won't suggest these are the best written tests, but I test various processes, supervisors, etc like this:
https://github.com/cpursley/walex/blob/master/test/walex/sup...
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PostgreSQL Is Enough
You don’t send the entire WAL, just what you subscribe to - and you can even filter via SQL: https://github.com/cpursley/walex?tab=readme-ov-file#publica...
- A Technical Dive into PostgreSQL's replication mechanisms
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Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase
What we do is much if the business logic in Postgres. But then there’s all the other stuff like external integrations, etc.
We handled that by having an Even system built on the Postgres WAL that we use like a callback system.
I put together a little library in Elixir (that originally started out as forked Supabase realtime) for this:
https://github.com/cpursley/walex
Recently added the ability to configure WalEx to forward events to webhooks or EventRelay (so you don’t need to know Elixir).
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All the ways to capture changes in Postgres
If you're using Elixir, check out https://github.com/cpursley/walex
I've actually been thinking about turning this idea into a product where you can just point it at your postgres database and select the tables you want to listen to (with filters, like you describe). And have that forwarded to a webhook (with possibility of other protocols).
I'd love to hear folks thoughts on that (and if it would be something people would pay for).
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Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps
Neat, this is the pattern I've been thinking about for a while now. Also glad to see this is Elixir based.
I've been using https://github.com/cpursley/walex (basically a fork of cainophile via a fork for subabase) to listen to Postgres changes in Elixir.
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How to Listen to Database Changes Using Postgres Triggers in Elixir
https://github.com/cpursley/walex
Which is based on WAL logs and doesnt have the same limitations.
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PostgreSQL Logical Replication Gotchas
Great writeup, just added this to the WalEx readme:
https://github.com/cpursley/walex
(WalEx is an Elixir lib for listening to the WAL and perform callback-like actions with the data)
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We used Elixir's Observer to hunt down bottlenecks
Very cool.
I'm using Elixir to listen to change events via https://github.com/cpursley/walex (which I basically ripped off from Supabase).
temporal_tables
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All the ways to capture changes in Postgres
There is also the temporal_tables extension.
[0] https://github.com/arkhipov/temporal_tables
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Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data
- https://github.com/arkhipov/temporal_tables
I haven't used any of these but I work on https://xtdb.com which is also implementing SQL:2011's temporal features :)
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Data point versioning infrastructure for time traveling to a precise point in time?
It seems like PG has this extension here anyone ever use it?
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Questions about history table pattern
You could look at that or ask me questions about it (disclaimer, I am the author). Also there is https://github.com/arkhipov/temporal_tables/
- Modern solutions for database auditing?
- How Postgres Audit Tables Saved Us from Taking Down Production
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spring-data-jpa-temporal: a lightweight temporal auditing library
All good. Note there is also https://github.com/arkhipov/temporal_tables/ (which is also type 4 as a postgres extension - pretty similar to what ebean orm is doing)
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Time-travel options for databases
The Temporal Tables Postgres extension works well. https://github.com/arkhipov/temporal_tables
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easy master<->master postgresql 11 cluster solution?
If you're doing this across regions, you really really should reconsider. If you're doing it in the same data center you might be able to get away with it (but then I'm not sure why you're doing it in the first place, if the system fits in one DC then you probably can just scale up). It might be worth considering a sharded & passively combined approach -- i.e. every country has it's own data, and there's some huge public schema which consists of all the data that is drip fed in to materialized views or tables at regular intervals. You could also combine this with temporal_tables to get a very delayed but theoretically time-consistent (well, aside from clock skew across regions of course...) view of your DB to query... Really depends on the use case.
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SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases
One of postgres's most underrated features. RLS is amazing, can be unseen/basically work silently if your programming language-side tools are good enough, and is documented well (like everything else):
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html
But the power of PG is that it doesn't stop there, if you combine this with a plugin like temporal_tables and you can segment by user and time:
https://github.com/arkhipov/temporal_tables
All of this mostly unknown to the thing that's accessing the DB. If that's not enough for you, why not add some auditing with pgaudit:
https://www.pgaudit.org/#section_three
I think it might not actually be hyperbole to say that Postgres is the greatest RDBMS database that has ever existed.
What are some alternatives?
PolarDB-for-PostgreSQL - A cloud-native database based on PostgreSQL developed by Alibaba Cloud.
TimescaleDB - An open-source time-series SQL database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. Packaged as a PostgreSQL extension.
neon - Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
pg_bitemporal - Bitemporal tables in Postgres
realtime - Broadcast, Presence, and Postgres Changes via WebSockets
pgaudit - PostgreSQL Audit Extension
libcluster - Automatic cluster formation/healing for Elixir applications
dolt - Dolt – Git for Data
worker - High performance Node.js/PostgreSQL job queue (also suitable for getting jobs generated by PostgreSQL triggers/functions out into a different work queue)
datasette - An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
helm-charts - neondatabase helm charts
beekeeper-studio - Modern and easy to use SQL client for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, and more. Linux, MacOS, and Windows.