what is postgre and why does no one talk about pregre

@Felthry (if the first part is also a joke, sorry) PostgreSQL is a... powerful FOSS relational database, sometimes just called postgres. postgresql.org/

@myst (i'm kind of curious but i don't think we'd understand any details because This Stuff Is Complicated)

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@myst (our idea of a database is an array of ordered bytes in memory)

@Felthry @myst It’s not so hard. Consider a database of User entities. Each User is a table. the rows are keys (userID, avatar, accountIsPrivate) and the columns are values associated with the keys (0123, “imageurl.png”, true). Sometimes the keys point to lists, or to IDs identifying other parts of the database. For example, a Comment entity might be a internal numeric ID and its text contents. The value of the comments key of a User might be a list of comment ID numbers.

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