Re: PostgreSQL Timeline - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Dan Ports
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Timeline
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Msg-id 20130918203708.GB12275@cs.washington.edu
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL Timeline  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 03:09:52PM -0500, Josh Berkus wrote:
> A quick test demonstrates pretty clearly that Vertica is using a forked
> version of psql as its client, at least.  Given this use of Pg code,
> it's fairly likely that there's PG code elsewhere as well; to date,
> Stonebraker has reused some Postgres code in every one of his projects.

Last I heard, they were using only the Postgres parser and query
rewriter. The client code (psql, ODBC libraries, etc) used to be based
on Postgres too -- I'd gotten the impression that was no longer the
case, but I might be mistaken about that.

Dan

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