PostgreSQL is enough (2024)

A developer on Hacker News yesterday shared 'PostgreSQL is enough,' an argument that the open-source database handles far more use cases than many engineers assume. The discussion drew fifty-one comments debating where Postgres falls short—and where developers have likely been overthinking their infrastructure. The piece suggests teams often reach for specialized databases without fully exhausting what Postgres can do with proper schema design, indexing, and built-in extensions.

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