Re: Global snapshots - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Amit Kapila
Subject Re: Global snapshots
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Msg-id CAA4eK1LqkOM0SH-Xk2veY4NNNiOGz+kbAiRPLkcjuzpinzwXSg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Global snapshots  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 8:36 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 05:51:21PM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > I feel if Sawada-San or someone involved in another patch also once
> > studies this approach and try to come up with some form of comparison
> > then we might be able to make better decision.  It is possible that
> > there are few good things in each approach which we can use.
>
> Agreed. Postgres-XL code is under the Postgres license:
>
>         Postgres-XL is released under the PostgreSQL License, a liberal Open
>         Source license, similar to the BSD or MIT licenses.
>
> and even says they want it moved into Postgres core:
>
>         https://www.postgres-xl.org/2017/08/postgres-xl-9-5-r1-6-announced/
>
>         Postgres-XL is a massively parallel database built on top of,
>         and very closely compatible with PostgreSQL 9.5 and its set of advanced
>         features. Postgres-XL is fully open source and many parts of it will
>         feed back directly or indirectly into later releases of PostgreSQL, as
>         we begin to move towards a fully parallel sharded version of core PostgreSQL.
>
> so we should understand what can be used from it.
>

+1.  I think that will be quite useful.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com



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