Stu Hood

In Python with mypy (which is only one of three+ type checkers), there is an option that you can toggle to allow calling untyped from typed.

We're all in awe that we didn't know this existed. Thanks!

I hate logs without context. Postgres ERRORs seemed like that to me. But while on call last week I learned about the backtrace_functions GUC to get stack traces for ERRORs so I wrote a short blog post on how to use this GUC!

www.enterprisedb.com/blog/stack-t...

ParadeDB takes on Elasticsearch as interest in Postgres explodes amid AI boom | TechCrunch ParadeDB built a Postgres extension that facilitates full-text search and analytics on Postgres without the need to transfer data.

ParadeDB has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres.

Read it on TechCrunch: techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/p...

I continue to love working on these problems with these people!

We have a great foundation in Postgres and Tantivy, and exciting projects to make both search and analytics faster and easier for our users.

Congratulations @philippemnoel.bsky.social and Ming!

1/5. @paradedb.bsky.social has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres. 🧵

A white goldenrod crab spider on a white cluster of yarrow flowers.

A goldenrod crab spider that we saw this weekend in Tahoe! They adapt their color from white to yellow to orange depending on their flower.

ParadeDB Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres

The ParadeDB BM25 index brings Elastic-style full-text search to Postgres, powered by our custom Postgres-native LSM tree. Dive into how we built it:

www.paradedb.com/blog/lsm_tre...

I've been fine without it because they have done a really good job with their built in apps.

But an important unknown will be whether that stays true in the long term: maintaining and improving a software system is harder than creating it in the first place.

bsky.app/profile/matt...

YouTube video by xkcd's What If? What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?

What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?

Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!

youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo.

We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

If that’s what they do to a US Senator with a question, imagine what they do to farm workers, day laborers, cooks, and the other nonviolent immigrants they are targeting in California and across the country. Or any American that dares to speak up.

I will not stop fighting to demand accountability.

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

Bridged Indexes in OrioleDB: architecture, internals & everyday use? | OrioleDB Since version beta10 OrioleDB supports building indexes other than B-tree. Bridged indexes are meant to support these indexes on OrioleDB tables.

Really excited about what OrioleDB are doing: see previous posts on their blog.

One thing that this post doesn't capture though is that for some index types (including GIN), a "bridge" might be desirable to avoid filling your index with large string primary keys. www.orioledb.com/blog/orioled...

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas?

LUTNICK: Generally 10%

DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%

LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff

DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

Speaker: Philippe Noël | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025 Philippe Noël, Co-founder, CEO @ ParadeDB, is a speaker for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025. Philippe’s talk is titled “Elasticsearch-Quality Full-Text Search in Postgres via Tantivy”.

🧊 Do you know #PosetteConf speaker @philippemnoel.bsky.social's (Philippe Noël) favorite icebreaker at #Postgres events? Spoiler--he doesn't have one! 🐘

But he shares more fun facts at: posetteconf.com/speakers/phi...

#postgresql #databases #OpenSource #community

Our van broke down in Roswell so naturally we wrote a song about the 1947 UFO incident while we were stranded there.

Now our song is featured in the latest episode of the Via Podcast. It’s a fun trip through UFO lore and bizarre desert mysteries. Tune in here: mwg.aaa.com/via/podcast/...

A CNN news notification : The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through the newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say

*crab-walked

The butterfly effect.

Can do this with docs.rs/ouroboros/la...

Elon Musk Pretends He’s Leaving The Job He Supposedly Doesn’t Have To Not Return To The Job He Supposedly Never Left There are a few ways to think about Elon Musk’s announcement this week that he’s stepping back from DOGE. The first is that he’s leaving a job he officially doesn’t have. Th…

I wrote about how Elon Musk is pretending he's leaving a job he supposedly doesn't have to return to the job he supposedly never left, and how basically everything about him is made up nonsense.

www.techdirt.com/2025/04/24/e...

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Just under two weeks in, and I am so happy to be at @paradedb.bsky.social: excellent team, great platform, exciting problems, and an urgent customer need. Love it!

🦀 Hello World!

The Rust project now has an official presence on Bluesky! ✨

We'll be posting the same on our Mastodon and Bluesky accounts, so you won't miss anything on either platform.

Concerning New Study Finds Nation’s Poverty Growing Faster Than Officials Can Build Prisons

Concerning New Study Finds Nation’s Poverty Growing Faster Than Officials Can Build Prisons
theonion.com/concern...

If by "vector engine" you mean: "uses vectorized execution" (generally to accelerate OLAP queries), then that has nothing to do with vector search which is what your other categories seem to be referring to.

But also, I _think_ that this chart mashes up "vectorized execution" with "vector search"?

Vector Similarity Search in DuckDB This blog post shows a preview of DuckDB's new vss extension, which introduces support for HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds) indexes to accelerate vector similarity search.

AFAICT, DuckDB's support for vector search is an extension as well: duckdb.org/2024/05/03/v...

1/5. I'm really excited to announce that @paradedb.bsky.social is now available on @neon.tech. Fast full-text search, fast analytics, serverless, 100% Postgres🤯! A story... 🧵