Thread: Redhat DB differences

When Bruce started the "Are we losing momentum" thread he said:

"... Specifically, they are concerned about Red Hat dropping their Red Hat Database and instead distributing PostgreSQL
aspart of Red Hat Enterprise Server ..."
 

Redhat Database is based on Postgres correct?

What are the differences between RHDB and Postgres?

Will Redhat be contributing any of those added features / capabilities / etc., back to the Postgres project if RHDB
continuesto be shipped?  What if RHDB is no longer shipped, will those features be contributed back to Postgres, or
justallowed to die?
 

Later
Rob

Rob Butler <robert.butler5@verizon.net> writes:
> What are the differences between RHDB and Postgres?

RHDB *is* Postgres, plus some separate tools which you can find at 
http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/, plus (in original concept) additional
support effort such as back-porting bug fixes to stable releases that
the community isn't interested in maintaining anymore.  That last part
has been dropped (for the moment) since RHDB isn't being offered as a
product (for the moment).

> Will Redhat be contributing any of those added features / capabilities
> / etc., back to the Postgres project if RHDB continues to be shipped?

The RHDB tools are still available and still being developed.  Since
they are GPL (per Red Hat company policy) there isn't really any
prospect of integrating them into the BSD-license core PG distribution.
But there would not be anything to stop someone from picking them up
as a non-core project (on gborg say) if Red Hat stopped funding
work on them.  Also, even today the Red Hat database group would be
pleased to see some outside contributions of work on those tools ...
        regards, tom lane        Red Hat Database project