--- title: Just Use Postgres! | daily.dev description: A comprehensive review of Denis Magda's book covering PostgreSQL's capabilities beyond traditional relational features. The 402-page guide explores core... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/just-use-postgres--c90ppdw4c twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Just Use Postgres! | daily.dev og:description: A comprehensive review of Denis Magda's book covering PostgreSQL's capabilities beyond traditional relational features. The 402-page guide explores core... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/just-use-postgres--c90ppdw4c og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/c90PpDw4C.png og:image:alt: Just Use Postgres! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Just Use Postgres! **[Vlad Mihalcea](https://daily.dev/sources/vladmihalcea)** · 4 min read · 255 upvotes · 24 comments ## Summary A comprehensive review of Denis Magda's book covering PostgreSQL's capabilities beyond traditional relational features. The 402-page guide explores core database concepts like indexing (B+Tree, hash, partial), transactions, and modern SQL features (CTEs, window functions), then dives into non-relational capabilities including JSON storage and full-text search. The book examines PostgreSQL's extension ecosystem: pgvector for ML/GenAI embeddings, TimescaleDB for time series data, PostGIS for geospatial queries, and pgmq for message queues. Includes performance tuning guidance and discusses when PostgreSQL might not be the right choice. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@andrewvaz** · 9 upvotes > This is something I have been saying for some time already. Why spread your data across multiple platforms? Some say security. I personally prefer making my platform redundant and hardened. If something goes wrong it's easier to find the problem and fix it, everything is in one place. **@crossplatform** · 5 upvotes > Postgres is not good enough for development. **@pozda** · 5 upvotes > i used a lot of different databases, Postgresql is the most complete one but not a golden hammer, i have an app where i use PocketBase and that's perfect choice for the requirements of the project. > > Use the database that is good enough to run your project without hiccups, don't use tank to kill a fly. > > and MOST important advice - don't optimize for scaling early **@saumyajain21** · 2 upvotes > So recently been using mongo, and this seems so weird and lots of issue are just because a new field was introduced later without proper migrations and data seeding. I know its the fault of developers, but it would be pretty hard for them to mess this much in the postgres environment. **@a\_meb\_a** · 1 upvotes > great ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres](https://daily.dev/posts/it-s-2026-just-use-postgres-qtm7zngdf) · Hacker News · 374 upvotes · 23 comments --- Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#sql](https://daily.dev/tags/sql), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/just-use-postgres--c90ppdw4c) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Just Use Postgres!","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/just-use-postgres--c90ppdw4c","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/just-use-postgres--c90ppdw4c"},"datePublished":"2025-11-24T09:04:33.214Z","dateModified":"2025-11-24T09:04:53.662Z","description":"A comprehensive review of Denis Magda's book covering PostgreSQL's capabilities beyond traditional relational features. 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Why spread your data across multiple platforms? Some say security. I personally prefer making my platform redundant and hardened. 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I know its the fault of developers, but it would be pretty hard for them to mess this much in the postgres environment.","datePublished":"2025-11-28T10:40:27.579Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/c90PpDw4C#c-oouTwMp3O","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Saumya Jain","url":"https://daily.dev/saumyajain21","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/61699679?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"great","datePublished":"2025-12-01T11:13:35.423Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/c90PpDw4C#c-8BORJ4z3B","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Phillippe Michel Weir","url":"https://daily.dev/a_meb_a","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--BwH-uTMq--/f_auto/v1740136991/avatars/avatar_N403VFK9lAHNRwlSAhl1h"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}}]} ```