A faster path for the initial load and the snapshot refreshes of a synced table, for new synced tables on Postgres 17.
Why it is worth watching
It changes how long a first sync of a large table takes, and an admin has to opt the workspace in.
Where to read more
It is part of something we wrote up: Synced tables, from Unity Catalog into Postgres — A managed, read-only copy of a Unity Catalog table in Lakebase, kept current in snapshot, triggered or continuous mode, so applications read lakehouse data with Postgres latency.