A new trend for databases: Platforms

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Xata presents a Postgres-first platform that wires relational tables to search, file storage and AI chat with automatic schema+data sync to Elasticsearch, previewable database branching and preview databases tied to PRs, and a migration path using zero‑downtime schema changes via PG roll so feature branches merge safely. It shows how to geo‑distribute pages per workspace to cut latency, uses PGX extensions for Postgres, and demos replication, search fuzziness and chat-over-database working end to end.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:04Building complex applications
3. 2:31Data model for Notion
4. 3:54Adding search functionality
5. 6:47AI chat with database
6. 7:51Handling files in Notion
7. 9:16Database branching for features
8. 11:50Zero downtime schema migrations
9. 13:37Reducing latency with geo-distribution
10. 16:05Scaling with distributed PostgreSQL
11. 16:51Q&A

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