I don’t understand. It’s not like we don’t already have faster alternatives, don’t we have things like k and kdb that are many orders of magnitude faster even than this?
We use Postgres because it’s fantastic at the scale and problems it solve, if you have an extremely critical system where raw speed is at the core of everything and you’re dealing with petascale then maybe you’re bringing a solution you like to a problem it doesn’t fit?
Faster is better than slower.
Postgres is amazing. When I use Sqlite I miss many of its upsides--better data migrations and better concurrency being two. But queries are not free, and sometimes are slower than I'd like even with the right indexes. And for OLAP-like queries like the one in TFA you might say "well, just don't use postgres for that," but wouldn't it be better if you could? If you could use one database instead of two, or use your favourite database in more places instead of reaching for a different tool?