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		vosper on Jan 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thin PostgreSQL Clones It’s a tool that clones Postgres databases. It’s not a clone of Postgres the application.

est on Jan 25, 2022 | [–]

The postgres binary is only around 6MB, which is astonishingly small.

hackerfromthefu on Jan 25, 2022 | | [–]

It's much more sophisticated than cloning - it's only cloning the changes between the databases instead of the full databases. Ie 10 x 1TB database is only taking 1TB on disk.

hungryforcodes on Jan 25, 2022 | [–]

I had that exact idea!

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