Google Cloud SQL for Postgres

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Very exciting, but high availability, instance cloning, and read replicas are listed as &quot;This functionality is not yet supported for PostgreSQL instances&quot; in the docs. Seems like those need to be available before it&#x27;s a realistic option for production workloads.

Cloud SQL for Postgres is launching today and will be available for all users early next week.<p>Source: Work on Cloud SQL.

Has anyone seen documentation that it supports PostGIS?<p>Edit: Nevermind, it does! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;sql&#x2F;docs&#x2F;postgres&#x2F;extensions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;sql&#x2F;docs&#x2F;postgres&#x2F;extensions</a>

This is excellent news - am currently evaluating options for cloud Postgres. Only wish they&#x27;d support a few more extensions - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;sql&#x2F;docs&#x2F;postgres&#x2F;extensions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;sql&#x2F;docs&#x2F;postgres&#x2F;extensions</a> - e.g. plv8 would be great <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;plv8&#x2F;plv8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;plv8&#x2F;plv8</a>

One thing is really strange in this thread is that almost every opinion against Google&#x27;s customer support are down voted heavily. Google advocates always say that GCP support is better. Of course they have to be better because they are the underdog in the cloud war. I can&#x27;t buy the logic that GCP is Google but not that Google. What would happen if they could dominate?<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong. GCP as a product is really awesome. I&#x27;ve been using GCE and Datastore for a project and they just work. I just can&#x27;t trust Google enough to bring all my works to their cloud.

I&#x27;m really excited about the future of GCP and that there is now a serious AWS competitor.

The killer for me is PITR (point in time recover). A few years ago a colleague triggered and UPDATE without WHERE and PITR saved our sorry asses (on MS SQLServer, a fair product despite my antipathy MS).<p>Postgres has it, but it is kind of a pain to setup correctly and I love RDS because I don&#x27;t have to deal with the setup anymore.

Excited to see this, but holy shit is it unclear what expected costs could be. It seems like it might be on the cheap&#x2F;affordable side of things, but it&#x27;s not obvious. I almost prefer to just use Compose.io because at least the pricing is clear.

Is there a reason Google is so slow to compete with AWS? This seems like another example of where they&#x27;re playing catch-up. Meanwhile, I&#x27;m blown away that Node is still just in Beta (with no SLA &#x2F; deprecation guarantees) when Heroku and AWS have supported it for years.

The last piece of the puzzle for me to have a full stack alternative to AWS. Thanks Google!<p>Edit: not a complete end of the world, but it would be really nice (and completely easy&#x2F;safe) to have the uuid-ossp extension available.

Yep.I now believe Google is serious about cloud.It is beyond me why it takes Google too long to do this.

Yes! We have been asking for this for a while now when asked for feedback about what we would value. Managed ElasticSearch is next on our wishlist.

Will it be available in the same private network as the rest of our GCE VMs? Last I checked, Google Cloud MySQL runs over the public network, which is a big pain in the ass for access control.

Huge news! This + GKE + the new improved GCE billing setup is killer for most shops.

Promising.<p>Is Google contributing anything back into Postgres codebase ?<p>They could have named something different for the product - Cloud SQL ? seriously.

Awesome, was the main service needed before being able to consider moving from AWS - let the cloud wars begin!

this is huge! I take my words back - RDS finally has a competitor.

Well, I guess I can try out Google Cloud finally

Does anyone have a good comparison between this, RDS, Aurora, Citus, Heroku PG and some of the other Postgres (and &quot;Postgres-compatible&quot;) services?<p>With so many DBaaS tools available, I&#x27;d like to know the best options for things like pricing, availability, features, tooling, monitoring, etc...

What is the maximum disk space for this offering? Amazon&#x27;s RDS peaks out at just 6TB currently.

Wait did this leak before the keynote announcement? :-) (I&#x27;m at Google Cloud NEXT right now).

Does anyone know if it supports PostGIS? I&#x27;m not seeing much on the page (on mobile).

This is definitely going to be very useful when it&#x27;s fully fleshed out but be warned that this initial beta doesn&#x27;t support Google-managed replication or HA (to say nothing of an SLA, of course).

This makes me seriously consider switching from heroku for my rails postgres app. Probably could cut my costs significantly.<p>Anyone have any comments or experiences with the Google app engine flex environment for ruby?

Because my first question was &quot;What are the deviations from standard Postgres?&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;sql&#x2F;docs&#x2F;features#differences-pg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;sql&#x2F;docs&#x2F;features#differences-pg</a><p>It looks like there aren&#x27;t many – you can&#x27;t use SUPERUSER, and they enable extensions, options, and parameters one by one at request.

Awesome. Now, can you do the same for Elasticsearch ?

Any chance of seeing pipelinedb being supported?

I&#x27;ve been looking forward to this forever

Hopefully this pushes Microsoft to expand their offering. I&#x27;d love managed Postgres in Azure.

The day before I was about to migrate to RDS. Change of plans!

Does this use Vitess? Are those two competing products?

Extremely exciting, been waiting for this for a while

It would be awesome to see pglogical in the list of supported extensions, which can help to deal with replication for now.

5 GB database with 2 GB RAM for $132&#x2F;month (tier D4)?<p>Seriously, who is this for? I have no idea - SSD VPS like this is about $10&#x2F;mo ...

Does this support hstore and Json store?

Good news. More competition the better.

This is great news! Finally!

Fantastic news.

is there IOPS info somewhere?

I&#x27;m not building anything on top of google unless they give EOL time lines and stop pulling the rug out from under services.