What is TigerFS and how does it work?

TigerFS mounts Postgres DBs as filesystems. Paths compile to SQL; ops are transactions. FUSE/NFS handles the glue.

How do I install and use TigerFS?

curl -fsSL https://install.tigerfs.io | sh, then tigerfs mount postgres://host/db /mnt. ls/cat away.

Yes — NFS on macOS. Multi-machine concurrent r/w with ACID, no extra sync.

Shell warriors, rejoice: TigerFS lets you treat PostgreSQL tables like plain files. ACID transactions meet Unix tools, no ETL pipelines required.

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