“for the longest time we notion runs on one instance of postris database”
PostgreSQL
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“here it's created postris database obviously when we're building a full stack application you to be able to save things”
“we spin up a Postgres database for you and you can just access it via really nice UI”
“send data to destinations like postgres bigquery and segment”
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