Estuary Expands PostgreSQL CDC with Targeted Backfills and Scalable Discovery

Estuary has released several updates to its PostgreSQL change data capture (CDC) connector focused on backfill recovery, discovery at scale, and schema-change detection. Targeted Backfills PostgreSQL capture bindings now support an Additional Backfill Filter, allowing a SQL expression to be applied to backfill queries for an individual table. This can reduce the amount of data that needs to be re-read when only a subset of a large PostgreSQL table needs to be recovered or re-backfilled.

For example, teams can use an indexed identifier or timestamp to limit the rows included in a recovery…