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Highgo Blog
highgo.ca · Company blog · on HN since 2020
Highgo, a Canadian PostgreSQL consultancy with Chinese backing, blogs about Postgres internals, replication, load balancing, bulk loading, and corruption.
What HN saysHN links it for PostgreSQL how-to posts. Commenters mostly discuss the company itself, noting its consultancy status and an Oracle-compatibility effort.
17HN people shared it
3linked it in comments
21stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1PostgreSQL Query Processing Stages2 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 2How to Analyze a PostgreSQL Crash Dump File2 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 3Homepage2 people · first shared 2022
- 4Bulk loading into PostgreSQL: Options and comparison1 people · 112 points · first shared 2020 · 28 comments on HN
- 5Upcoming feature in PostgreSQL 15 – MERGE statement1 people · 38 points · first shared 2022 · 13 comments on HN
- 6PostgreSQL Load Balancing: Pgpool Deep Dive1 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 7Avoiding, Identifying, and dealing with PostgreSQL database corruption – Part 11 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 8PostgreSQL 16 Bi-Directional Logical Replication1 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 9Types of Indexes in PostgreSQL1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 10The Buffer Tag in PostgreSQL (2021)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 11Transactions in PostgreSQL and Their Mechanism1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 12A Deeper Look Inside PostgreSQL Visibility Check Mechanism1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 13JSON in PostgreSQL1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 14Features in PG13 – Deduplication in B-Tree Indexes1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 15PostgrSQL guide to user-extention module creation1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
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nielsole · 2022-12-16
Did not find any obvious references as to who is backing this project, but it seems to be a Chinese software consultancy.
https://www.highgo.ca/
> What’s the point of doing some just for the sake of destroying other people’s business?
Apart from any potential ideological reasons related to open source, they are likely planning to support their own business by providing a compelling product.
Alupis · 2022-12-16
> It's not clear to me that it really can do that, though.
It would seem exceedingly foolhardy to put all your eggs into, what is essentially a compatibility shim layer/plugin, that may or may not actually be compatible with Oracle or all of Oracle.
The company behind it also is an unknown (to me at least) - HiGo[1].
So, IvorySQL is FOSS and free (as in beer) - but what happens if some feature doesn't actually work like advertised? Or something isn't implemented yet? Now you're paying HiGo for support instead of Oracle - although I'd trust Oracle's product a lot more personally.
> I'd ask why you are paying for any commercial DB in that case.
People pay for commercial DB's for a lot of reasons - including having someone to call at 3am when things go bad. Look at how prevalent SQL Server is - most of the deployments I've seen are because the company simply decided they will use SQL Server for everything (ie, not a technical reason).
[1] https://www.highgo.ca/
sargstuff · 2023-01-15
resources:
awk: the power and promis of a 40 yr old language (2021) : https://www.fosslife.org/awk-power-and-promise-40-year-old-language
Gawk: Effective AWK programming https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/
gawk-psql : pgsql extension of GNU awk : https://gawkextlib.sourceforge.net/pgsql/pgsql.html
gawkextlib : http://shouce.jb51.net/gawk/gawkextlib.html
gawk libraries for XML, PostgreSQL : https://osdn.net/projects/sfnet_gawkextlib/
psql : https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/psql.htm
postgresql copy from program : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62254888/using-awk-and-postgresqls…
user-defined modules to postgres : https://www.highgo.ca/2019/10/01/a-guide-to-create-user-defined-extens…