The data warehouse vendor also announced several other features to broaden its platform’s interoperable, open data accessibility.

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Snowflake has integrated pg_lake, an open source PostgreSQL extension collection, into its Snowflake Postgres service, enabling users to work with data lakehouses and Apache Iceberg tables directly through SQL. The pg_lake extension handles version management, data type conversions, and caching automatically. Snowflake also expanded its Horizon Catalog to manage Iceberg tables with governance controls for external query engines like Spark and Trino, and extended open data sharing capabilities to Delta Lake and Iceberg formats across clouds and regions. These updates emphasize interoperability and open standards, unifying analytical and transactional workloads without vendor lock-in.

pg_lake comes to Snowflake Postgres: What it means for open standards