Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres

This post announces the private preview of PlanetScale for Postgres, powered by a new architecture called Neki. Neki brings Vitess's sharding capabilities to Postgres, aiming to provide superior performance and reliability. Key technical details include: true high availability with automatic failovers, query buffering, connection pooling via a proprietary proxy layer (including PgBouncer), support for Postgres v17, online imports from Postgres v13+, automatic version updates without downtime, and leveraging PlanetScale Metal's locally-attached NVMe SSDs for performance and cost-effectiveness. The post explicitly states Neki is architected from first principles for Postgres, not a fork of Vitess.