I love postgres, keen to recommend it and did use a couple of the suggested tips in my last startup. However: - After just the first couple of months we had to

I love postgres, keen to recommend it and did use a couple of the suggested tips in my last startup. However: - After just the first couple of months we had to replace full text search with Elastic because it just wasn't up to the task fully. - We did introduce redis for cashing which was maybe 2 hours of setup overhead (using Rails, deploying on Render for $5/month). YMMV.