PostgreSQL

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Xin: Multiple database query languages are not an issue for AI agents
“Instead of worrying about PostgreSQL and maybe Spark SQL, why not just one? But I don't think that's an issue for agents. Agents are very eloquent in PostgreSQL or Spark SQL. It's never going to get confused. As long as the data is there and it's accessible ag…”
Reynold Xin Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 53:10 The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
Schneider: AI and Ephemeral Postgres Cut Data Cleaning From Hours to Minutes
“What have used it would have taken me probably five hours historically to like clean the data appropriately. And I smashed that out in like probably 20 to 30 minutes.”
Cody Schneider Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 40:13 Claude Code & MCPs built my $145K marketing machine
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Taggar: Supabase Database Demand Exploded as AI Agents Choose It by Default
“A database tool and like a knock on effect for that for YC company is Superbase has just seen like an explosion at the demand for databases, right? And the age was interesting is the agents are choosing Superbase as a default tool to like set up and host their…”
Harj Taggar Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 4:32 The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
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Whop migrated 800GB of databases to PlanetScale with zero downtime
“And that's how we moved about 800 gigabytes of data with zero downtime from Postgres to PlanetScale.”
Jack Sharky May 23, 2025 ▶ 37:48 How Whop Is Making $1.2+ Billion For Creators · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Hitchcock: SurrealDB avoids PostgreSQL limitations by not building on top of it
“We're not building on top of Postgres and therefore limited by what Postgres has to offer.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 43:35 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
Liu: LLM observability startups ignore full systems; just use Postgres
“The issue really is the fact that these observability companies isn't actually doing observability for the system, it's just doing the LLM thing. Like I still end up using like Datadog, right? Or like, you know, Sentry to do, like, latency. And so I just have …”
Jason Liu Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 32:35 High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
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Yegge: PostgreSQL matches dedicated graph databases on most graph workloads
“There was some joint study between IBM and some other That basically showed that Postgres was performing as well as most of the graph databases for most graph workloads.”
Steve Yegge Dec 17, 2023 ▶ 1:03:12 The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
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Stewart: CockroachDB scales reads and writes arbitrarily across supported PostgreSQL features
“We don't have full Postgres compatibility today, but every Postgres feature we have is cloud native. It will use the full power of the cluster to serve your queries and we can scale writes arbitrarily. We can scale reads arbitrarily.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 15:28 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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Walling: Drip Hit Scaling Limits with 30,000 Queries Per Second on Postgres
“That was the stuff we did for the first several years was like all the caching and all the, Grouping queries, and we had read replicas of our, of the database, but it was purely write load on a single data store. You have this Postgres database with 30,000 que…”
Rob Walling Jun 16, 2020 ▶ 34:24 Episode 501 | A Bluetick Update from Mike #Taber

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