Martin Casado

It's mostly an exploration of, like, could you, with sufficient AI coding, just take on something absolutely ridiculous?

If you're hearing this and you want to work on this, and you are an expert in databases... Do you have a public...

But if you want to work on this, come talk to me and maybe you can come do this at Fivetran.

You don't even have to use my proof of concept.

I think there's actually a real opportunity right at this moment.

I really lament that we're sort of stuck with Postgres forever.

Postgres, contrary to popular belief,

is very old technology.

It is not a good database.

Undergraduates writing class projects write better databases than Postgres.

Not because the people who built Postgres were not smart, but simply because it was written a long time ago.

It has a lot of technical debt.

And I really think the world should create a new operational database rather than just endlessly repackaging Postgres.

Yeah, that's another one of my country mistakes.

Postgres is bad, actually.

I should also say... No, no, no, even better, like an undergrad in a database course is writing better databases than... In many respects, the storage engine that you would write as an undergraduate in a database course is better than Postgres' heap storage engine.

Okay.

Postgres' storage engine, I don't think... The creators, the people who promote it today would admit it is not a good design.

It's been patched up in a lot of ways.

But the Postgres storage engine... I'm not going to digress on this.