As a PlanetScale MySQL user for the past 2 years, this is really exciting for the Postgres community. (Worked at a company that ran both, was a bummer our tooling didn’t match.)

Using PlanetScale for db management is like using an iPhone after being accustomed to a Treo. The experience is just better in every way.

Congrats to the PlanetScale team!

We've really enjoyed working with Postgres to bring this product to market. I am here if anyone has questions.

Some cool scaling stuff [0] [1] coming out for pg lately. Looking forward to seeing what PS builds here, I've been a big fan for awhile.

Would love more details tbh, but will be watching regardless.

[0]: https://supabase.com/blog/multigres-vitess-for-postgres

[1]: https://pgdog.dev

PlanetScale came out of Vitess, which was very MySQL-specific.

Does this new PostgreSQL offering share any heritage with Vitess or is this an entirely new piece of technology, or based on other components that PlanetScale have written since the Vitess days that aren't direct descendants?

Update: to answer my own question https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-for-postgres#vitess...

> Vitess’ achievements are enabled by leveraging MySQL’s strengths and engineering around its weaknesses. To achieve Vitess’ power for Postgres we are architecting from first principles. We are well under way with building this new system and will be releasing more information and early access as we progress.

Congratulations! What's the availability of extensions? Any limitations worth knowing about?

Really cool. It'll be interesting to see how Multigres (by Supabase) shapes up compared to this. I think it's great to have more/better competitive hosted Postgres offerings.

off-topic, but from the same website: this gem https://planetscale.com/learn/courses/mysql-for-developers