This extension emulates Oracle's UTL_SMTP in PostgreSQL to send emails from database.

This is to only simplify rewrites of stored procedures during Oracle to PostgreSQL migrations.

When time matters, we should pick timestamp(0) in PostgreSQL

For this reason, it is wise to implement an option to switch may be. We put that feature so that people can switch between white and dark background

There is no doubt a debate around Client-side and Server-side connection pooler. But, utilizing the Client-side connection pooling using such advanced drivers should never be taken lightly.

Curious to understand the reason of not choosing a modern UI and backend using Open Source tech stack such as React/Java/Golang/PostgreSQL ?

Software development and continuous maintenance costs money and not every company has any business trying to run a software development department.

Every company should be focused on data analytics though

Especially writing a bespoke data entry system.

You can find plenty of cheap good enough consulting companies that can make modifications to any of the third party SaaS products.

Understood. It is no doubt the maintenance and the time to build. However, it does take some efforts to build Oracle forms that requires a good amount of development time in PL/SQL and for customization of forms screens.

The thing is that it is a well understood platform and easy to hire out one of the major consulting companies by giving them the requirements and signing a statement of work.

Then when you don’t want to deal with them, hire out another one.

I completely agree with this. AI is merely a tool. An advanced auto-correct, a smart fill-in-the-blanks tool. It doesn't do anything on its own. A human has to be involved in the use of it. Imo that human should be the one that reaps the rewards.

Maybe one day when AI can be legitimate actors themselves this might change, but for now AI doesn't do anything by itself. There's always a human involved to some extent.

Although I do think that one aspect that should be considered is the amount of human input to determine whether copyright should exist on the work at all. If I just generate an image with the prompt of "beautiful girl" with all default settings, then I think there would be a lot of other people that will generate the same (or substantially similar) image.

PostgreSQL is definitely going to be the de-facto database for all things AI. It is a database for the future with extensive integrations, advanced extensions for semantic and hybrid search involving vectors and keywords.

Some of the upgrades techniques presented in this talk are :

1. Using pg_dumpall 2. Using pg_dump and pg_restore 3. Using pg_upgrade without hard links 4. Using pg_upgrade with hard links 5. Logical Replication between major versions

Any other Upgrade methods you would like to discuss ?

PostgreSQL with Rust is always a great combination

As long as it cannot show anger and frustration, due to "sweating", it may be an interesting behavior.