Re: PostgreSQL derivatives - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: PostgreSQL derivatives
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Msg-id 1212797651.14299.7.camel@jd-laptop
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL derivatives  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL derivatives  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 19:58 -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> On Friday 06 June 2008 18:32:23 Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> > We make closed-source changes related to the Postgres core related to
> > performance and Oracle compatibility.  But, while these changes are
> > fairly significant, they do not prevent us from laying over a newer
> > version of Postgres.  Similarly, as you mentioned, GridSQL is fully
> > open source.
> >
>
> Note that GridSQL, while it works with postgres, was developed completely
> seperate and independently from postgresql.

Well GridSQL isn't even an extension to PostgreSQL is it? It is written
in java and appears to be a userland application (or middleware if you
prefer). I could be wrong.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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