Re: What does Natvie Posgres mean?

On 06/12/2018 10:53 AM, btober(at)computer(dot)org wrote:
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> When someone, e.g., as appeared in a recent and some older pgsql-jobs messages, says "Native Postgres", what do you suppose that means?
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> Does it mean something different than just "PostgreSQL"?
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> Is the word "Native" just noise, or does it actually refer to something specific?
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> A quick google search reveals that there apparently is a thing called "postgres-native" which is described as "...a native D implementation of the Postgres frontend/backend protocol.", but I don't get the sense that this is what is being talked about.

Native Postgres/PostgreSQL would imply PostgreSQL installed on a VM or
bare metal instead of something like Google Postgres or Amazon RDS.

JD

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