Re: PostgreSQL derivatives

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 had been done, but I agree it is out of date now in many respects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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