On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 10:51 AM Tim Uckun <timuckun@gmail.com> wrote:
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> To be fair Timescale also adds some other features which might be
> useful. For example they add some SQL enhancements like last value
> and auto maintaining materialized views and such. The automatic
> management of partitions is also pretty big plus in my opinion. You
> can get some of the equivalent functionality by writing stored procs
> and deploying pg_cron but it's nice to have those things built in.
If you want automatic partition management, look at pg_partman. No
need to write your own procs and deploy with cron.
And FWIW, in reference to the discussions about AWS, it is supported on RDS.
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