Pg_CRDT
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postgres extension
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
5 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Support for both Yjs and Automerge is the right direction
From 1 comment
Super excited to see this Paul, and amused to see the nod to my comment in the post :-) I'm going to enjoy getting stuck into this! (When I'm not stuck driving for six hours...…
samwillis on HN
Interest in offline-sync use cases
From 2 comments
Had a chance to take a little more of a look, did you investigate querying/indexing within the documents? (Didn't spot any sign in the repository) Without the ability to index…
samwillis on HNSure thing! In all honestly, to say it was a "persistence layer" is a bit of a stretch since it was not an additional layer per se, but here's what we did. Context: I was the CTO…
moralestapia on HN
Objections
Postgres MVCC may struggle with frequent CRDT updates
From 1 comment
Hm, I am a bit worried about using PostgreSQL with CRDT (Limitations section from the blog). I guess that PostgreSQL doesn't like frequently updates, because of MVCC. Maybe it is…
Hixon10 on HN
No indexing or querying within documents
From 2 comments
Had a chance to take a little more of a look, did you investigate querying/indexing within the documents? (Didn't spot any sign in the repository) Without the ability to index…
samwillis on HN> This could be as basic as a three column table (guid, doc, clock), the clock being a global Lamport This would be achievable, but also perhaps quite strict - we're dictating a…
kiwicopple on HN
CRDTs only fit a limited set of use cases
From 1 comment
I do not get peoples' obsession with CRDTs. They are useful in a limited set of use cases when your operations are commutative but having only commutative operations is pretty…
danbruc on HN
Requests
Add an open source license
From 1 comment
Hi @kiwicopple, hope you can still read this. This is very nice and comes handy to me as I've been working for months on a couple projects using Yjs for which I adapted a…
moralestapia on HN
Support for querying and indexing document contents
From 1 comment
Had a chance to take a little more of a look, did you investigate querying/indexing within the documents? (Didn't spot any sign in the repository) Without the ability to index…
samwillis on HN
Questions
Why not build this into Realtime instead
From 1 comment
Forgive me, I'm still recovering from the flu and am having some trouble thinking, but I didn't find your "Why not build this into Realtime?" section very compelling. If you've…
Smaug123 on HN
Alternatives named
Persisting Yjs documents with a custom Postgres historian
From 1 comment
Sure thing! In all honestly, to say it was a "persistence layer" is a bit of a stretch since it was not an additional layer per se, but here's what we did. Context: I was the CTO…
moralestapia on HN
Operational Transforms
From 1 comment
And if you tie the conflict resolution logic to the individual delta operations, you get Operational Transforms.
melony on HN