Re: Global snapshots

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 8:36 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
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> 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.
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