Franck Pachot

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Coder Radio · 653: Microsoft's Franck Pachot · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

When you know exactly your infrastructure and your storage, you can take some decisions where with Postgres itself, as it can run anywhere, it must be safe on any storage service, any file system option, whatever.

So it can be optimized better when you know the storage that is behind.

It only runs on Azure.

Maybe at some point, there will be a solution to run it locally to ease the development, but the goal is really to run on Azure.

So what is easy there is that it's all Postgres from a developer point of view.

It's not Postgres for DBA because it's different storage, different way to manage it.

But from a developer point of view,

when you connect to it you have all postgres features because the the compute instance is is based on the postgres code there are not nothing limited because of that so moving the application you should not have to change anything there because your application just can connect to horizon db like it connects to postgres so that makes it easier

And then moving data also can use all the tools that are available with Postgres.

The big advantage, the big gift of Postgres is

is not only the extensibility of Postgres, but all the ecosystem around.

So you have many tools, you have logical replication, you have dumps, you have a lot of tools to move data between Postgres databases, and you can just use them.

So yeah, the idea of the preview is that if you are already running on a Postgres application, you can try quickly Horizon DB.

and then run the same application with better performance and better elasticity because of the scalability.

If something works differently than Postgres, then there is something to fix because the goal is really to run exactly like Postgres.

with better performance, better availability, because also the storage is multiple zones, but from the application point of view, it's the same, the execution plan looks the same.

There are some extensions in addition to that, because there are some lot of extension in Postgres and in the managed service, there are some extensions that are supported, and there are some extensions that are specific, for example, AI features.

Of course, if you use them, then you want to use them on Horizon DB, but what you run on other Postgres, you can run it there.

AI features, there is a lot behind that.

First, there are many features.

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