PostgreSQL engineering writing from Tacnode: materialized views, full-text search, schema design, and query internals.https://tacnode.io/en-ushttps://tacnode.io/post/postgres-mcp-server-setup-and-safe-query-accesshttps://tacnode.io/post/postgres-mcp-server-setup-and-safe-query-accessA practical guide to running a Postgres MCP server — which implementation to pick, how to wire it into Claude Desktop, Cursor, and VS Code with Docker, what tools it exposes, and how to give an agent query access without handing it your database.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTMCPPostgreSQLAI AgentsDatabase SecurityRow-Level SecurityDeveloper ToolsBoyd Stowehttps://tacnode.io/post/postgres-schema-design-principleshttps://tacnode.io/post/postgres-schema-design-principlesA practical guide to Postgres schema design principles — database/schema/table hierarchy, normalization, indexing, partitioning, access control, schema evolution — and where the conventional rules need revision for systems that commit decisions inside small validity windows.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTPostgreSQLSchema DesignDatabase DesignMulti-TenantReal-Time DecisionsData ArchitectureAlex Kimballhttps://tacnode.io/post/postgres-materialized-viewshttps://tacnode.io/post/postgres-materialized-viewsHow to create, refresh, and optimize a Postgres materialized view — plus the structural limit every team hits when reads need fresh derived state under concurrency.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTPostgreSQLMaterialized ViewDatabase PerformanceData FreshnessReal-Time AnalyticsAlex Kimballhttps://tacnode.io/post/incremental-materialized-viewshttps://tacnode.io/post/incremental-materialized-viewsStandard materialized views recompute everything on a schedule. Incremental materialized views apply only the delta — bounding refresh cost to what actually changed. Here's how they work across Postgres, ClickHouse, Databricks, streaming databases, and Tacnode, what each approach can and can't do, and where they all hit the same structural limit.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTMaterialized ViewsIncremental View MaintenancePostgreSQLClickHouseStream ProcessingReal-Time DataDerived ContextAlex Kimballhttps://tacnode.io/post/foreign-data-wrapper-query-s3-iceberg-delta-lake-sqlhttps://tacnode.io/post/foreign-data-wrapper-query-s3-iceberg-delta-lake-sqlForeign data wrappers let you query Parquet on S3, Iceberg tables, and Delta Lake catalogs with standard SQL and zero data movement. Complete setup guide.Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTForeign Data WrapperPostgreSQLData LakeApache IcebergDelta LakeS3Data FederationBoyd Stowehttps://tacnode.io/post/full-text-search-postgresql-complete-guidehttps://tacnode.io/post/full-text-search-postgresql-complete-guideLearn how PostgreSQL full-text search works: tsvector, tsquery, GIN indexes, relevance ranking, and fuzzy matching — with production-ready SQL examples.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTFull-Text SearchPostgreSQLText SearchInverted IndexSearch RankingTrigramDatabase IndexingBoyd Stowe