[arjunnarayan]

Thank you very much for the elaboration, I really appreciate the thinking!

> Personally, I'm less interested in one-off migrations like you're suggesting. What I really want is to have something like Materialize embedded in my Postgres.

We're about to launch "Materialize as a Postgres read-replica" where it connects to a Postgres leader just as a Postgres read-replica would - using the built-in streaming replication in newer versions of postgres. It's currently in final testing before being released in the next month or two.

https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize/issues/5370

Also on our roadmap for Materialize Cloud is plug-and-play connections with Fivetran, Hightouch, and Census (and more) to bring in the business data, and allow you to, as you put it, make Materialize the central collection point for keeping updated all your views.

[gbrits]

Exciting! Does this already have the concept of backfilling as mentioned by GP. Interested to know as well