PostgreSQL

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “getting worried about the lack of columnar type of storage in Postgresql. As the datasets become bigger and bigger, the limitations of PG's storage are becoming more and more significant”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-30

• “PostgreSQL is all I ever use for anything that needs to be big”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “The only issue I have with PostgreSQL is a bit of migration effort moving to new major versions.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-10

• “I still had to spend a lot of effort maintaining PostgreSQL and Redis”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-10

• “more than sufficient for even non-trivial things using Go + PostgreSQL”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-20

• “PostgreSQL was the easier migration. I also thought Postgres might be more suited to the backfill/ingestion job due to the frequent row-level reads and writes.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-24

• “PostgreSQL Row-Level Security for multi-tenancy — tenant isolation happens at the database level, not application middleware. Each org's data is invisible to others even if you mess up a query.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-02

• “written the entire backend of a fintech using nothing but postgresql, integration over http and webhook receival included”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-23

• “I despise PostgreSQL in particular in how fucking annoying it is to upgrade.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-10-17

• “new PostgreSQL index type which outperforms B-Trees for many common cases”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-13

• “We needed something easy to set up, reliable, familiar, and good enough to get us to market. A colleague suggested we just use PostgreSQL”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-07-09

• “Switched from row-based to columnar (PostgreSQL → ClickHouse) for analytics, 8x faster at 1/3 the cost”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-04-23

• “PostgreSQL also gives me transaction safety to updates etc. And a bunch of support for other column base data such as my tenant ID column, some JSONB for relationship metadata to query on etc.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-02-28