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		initself on June 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B Ungodly expensive. PostgreSQL on the other hand - so good, so free!

timClicks on June 10, 2019 [–]

Just make sure that you tune it for analytical workloads. Its defaults are very conservative and lean towards transactional workloads.

erichocean on June 12, 2019 | [–]

Do you have a link for more info on how to tune Postgres for analytical workloads? TIA

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