# A platform team is rebuilding ingestion from a Postgres operational database to a Snowflake warehous

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Domain: Pipeline Design · Difficulty: medium

## Problem

A platform team is rebuilding ingestion from a Postgres operational database to a Snowflake warehouse. Three tables matter. customers (2M rows, slow updates) needs hourly. orders (500M rows, +10M/day, deletes critical) needs five-minute. legacy_events (hosted Postgres, no WAL access) needs daily. Compose the ingestion: pick the load and CDC strategy per table with the trade-off named, wire bookmark stores or replication slots as appropriate, ensure each sink dedupes on a stable key, and route everything into Snowflake.

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