Cloud data platform vendor Snowflake has made its set of PostgreSQL extensions open source in a bid to help developers and data engineers integrate the popular open source database with its lakehouse system.

Snowflake said pg_lake would allow developers and data engineers to read and write directly to Apache Iceberg tables from PostgreSQL, thereby cutting out the need to extract and move data. Iceberg is an open table format that advocates say allows users to bring their preferred analytics engines to their data without moving it; it is backed by Snowflake, Google, AWS and others.

Christian Kleinerman, Snowflake executive vice president, product, told The Register that making the extension open source would allow developers who use PostgreSQL in their stack to turn the database into an i

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