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Parquet is a column-based file format. PostgreSQL is a SQL query engine, and the default storage is row-oriented, but the engine can do all kinds of fun things,
by pramsey 4y ago
Parquet is a column-based file format. PostgreSQL is a SQL query engine, and the default storage is row-oriented, but the engine can do all kinds of fun things, hence the parquet_fdw extension and the cstore extension for example.