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Using Postgres for Everything
What Postgres for Everything means to a dev deploying all sorts of databases. Spoiler: it’s about collapsing your stack & keeping your world simple.
So, you might end up adopting various existing databases: Postgres for transactional data, Elastic for full-text search, Influx for time series, Pinecone for vector operations, and maybe ClickHouse for analytics. There’s a well-known argument that you should pick the "best tool for the job," which sometimes gets turned on its head as, “If you’ve only got a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” I don’t see the principle of "PostgreSQL for Everything" contradicting these, as long as you make sure you look at the big picture. Given these scenarios, I’d argue that the theoretical future challenges of a PostgreSQL-centric system are preferable to today’s complexities of opting into a multi-database architecture too early.
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