Postgres teams struggle to add analytics without extra database work
Teams with PostgreSQL-backed products want reporting, search, or analytics, but maintaining a separate OLAP copy can take substantial effort, and some analytics software has been requested with PostgreSQL support. The signals point to a broad desire for a more Postgres-friendly analytics setup, though requests for specific software compatibility are old and may no longer reflect current gaps.
For engineering teams running PostgreSQL-backed products. Mentioned from Jan 2009 to Mar 2026 on GitHub and Hacker News.
5 different people described this problem in 5 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 3.0/10
- Pain
- 5.3/10
- Frequency
- 6.5/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Businesses
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- High
What people said
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we'd have added more reporting/analytics/search if it weren't such a pain to set up a OLAP copy of our control plane databases
ucarion on Hacker NewsJul 2025Postgres is really good at a lot of things, but it's very unfortunate that it's really bad at simple analytics. I wish there was a plugin instead of having to have N databases
Build brief
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