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PlanetScale announces private preview of their Postgres hosting platform, claiming superior performance compared to existing solutions. The platform runs on PlanetScale Metal infrastructure with automatic failovers, connection pooling, and support for Postgres v17. Customer demand drove the expansion beyond MySQL, with companies like Convex already migrating production workloads. PlanetScale is also developing a new scaling system for Postgres, built from first principles rather than adapting Vitess.

Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres — PlanetScale