| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Seth Grimes <grimes(at)altaplana(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL derivatives |
| Date: | 2008-06-12 04:05:32 |
| Message-ID: | 200806120405.m5C45WP15053@momjian.us |
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> > Greenplum does distribute an open source product, specifically the bizgres
> > database. It's not widely used, but it is still available, so they should
> > probably be credited as such.
>
> Greenplum sponsored my efforts to include Partitioning and Sort
> improvements into 8.1 and 8.2 respectively, and have contributed at
> least 3 other patches that the community has rejected (for whatever
> reason). IMHO, Bizgres was really their way of showing that useful work
> had been done, but I agree it is out of date now in many respects
> because and only because it hasn't been updated since 8.1.
The bottom line is that Greenplum is fading farther and farther from
Postgres community involvement, as far as I can tell. :-(
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