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Temporal Joins, Long-context AI Pipelines, and Automated Tuning in PostgreSQL

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Temporal Joins in PostgreSQL are changing time-aware analytics. A crisp explainer from Crunchy Data shows you can query historical states without ad hoc hacks, letting apps answer “what happened when” with native SQL. The verdict: time travel built into your database, not a patch job.

Temporal Joins—in PostgreSQL, these joins stitch data across moments in time, unlocking time-travel style analytics for BI and archival workloads. The Crunchy Data guide shows practical benefits, from historical trend analysis to rollback-friendly reporting [1].

DeepSeek-OCR—highlighted as a solution for scalable long-context AI workflows in RAG pipelines, it helps systems remember longer documents and contexts as you fetch data, keeping retrieval quality high while staying performant, even with large document sets and knowledge bases [2].

AI-driven tuning demo — a Mistral-powered agent hooks into Postgres MCP to monitor health, surface optimizations, and spit out executable changes. It even uses hypopg to simulate an index on orders(customerid) without locking tables, while consulting pgstat_statements to spot hot queries [3].

Together, these threads sketch a PostgreSQL-backed stack where time-aware analytics meet long-context AI and automated tuning—ready for real-world, scalable AI apps. Stay tuned for hands-on guides. [1][2][3]

References

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HackerNews

Temporal Joins (PostgreSQL)

Post discusses temporal joins in PostgreSQL, exploring implementation details, use cases, and potential performance considerations, benchmarks, limits, and migration strategies.

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HackerNews

DeepSeek-OCR solving long-context problem for RAG and AI

Explains optical compression enabling scalable long-context handling in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for AI applications for large datasets and deployments.

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HackerNews

An open-source AI agent (Mistral) connects to PostgreSQL via MCP to diagnose slow queries and propose index optimizations in seconds.

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