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5 facts from 2 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2026
Paul Copplestone says OrioleDB is a drop-in replacement for Postgres's Heap storage engine and runs about 1.5 to two times faster.
“It is a drop-in replacement for the the current Postgres storage engine, which is Heap, and it runs about, um, 1.5 to two times faster, and you don't have to change anything else.”
2026
Paul Copplestone says Postgres projects normally keep a migrations folder as a historical log, which is hard for agents to read, so Supabase added declarative schema files.
“generally how you operate with Postgres is you have a migration file every time you make a change, you add a file to this migrations folder, and it's like a historical log.”
Undated
Garman says Amazon Aurora, AWS's managed database, is 100% compatible with Postgres, which he cites as a way to avoid customer lock-in.
“even where we have something like Aurora, which is our kind of managed database, it is 100% Postgres compatible.”
Undated
Supabase promoted using Postgres as a vector database through an extension developed by independent developer Andrew Kane.
“and you can use Postgres as a vector database. And Andrew Kane, a a completely independent guy has developed this awesome extension”
Undated
Ant Wilson says early AI agents put image data into Postgres and turned off row-level security to make projects work, until Lovable wrote skills to stop it.
“the agents were, like, trying to shove image data into Postgres. You know, they were turning off RLS in order to get their projects to work”
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