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The author says the rebuilt version costs about $20k a year against $150k for Looker, with Snowflake permissions doing the access control and dashboards running in sandboxed iframes.
He leaves out engineering hours: eight months of part-time work by three engineers, 325 commits and about 74k lines of code.
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Snowflake's Craig Kerstiens walks through the Postgres 19 beta: REPACK CONCURRENTLY reorganizes bloated tables without locks (no more pg_repack), partitions can now merge and split in place, autovacuum gets parallel workers, and SQL/PGQ brings graph queries to relational data.
The thread wanted what's still missing more than what shipped. A 15-year Postgres user in science flagged the absent columnar storage as datasets balloon; others miss materialized views and in-place major upgrades. And the top nitpick: GROUP BY ALL was DuckDB's idea first.
