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Sure but what is the scenario where you wouldn't want to use DuckDB and you'd want to use PostgreSQL instead but wouldn't want to load into PostgreSQL? DuckDB is already a SQL engine. The only additional benefit I'd imagine from PostgreSQL would be stuff you get from it being on disk?

But that's why I'm asking, I don't know.

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It depends on your situation: If you already have a Postgres instance then the FDW is probably the easier solution.

Oh yeah that makes sense. I assumed the commenter was just looking for any system to run SQL over Parquet files. If you don't want to use this system that makes it easy, fair enough.

> If you don't want to use this system that makes it easy, fair enough.

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

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It didn't read unkind or snarky at all to me - just an amicable way of ending a thread of investigation where the result was a simple "a ha, I understand" moment.

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