Re: Proposal to add --single-row to psql

It's an Amazon product based on release 8.0, but with many many features removed (e.g. Indexes!)

More specifically, it's a hacked-up column-store-ized Pg for OLAP and analytics work. As I understand it Amazon didn't develop it themselves; they bought/licensed Paraccel ( http://www.paraccel.com/) and customised to integrated into Amazon's IAM authentication/authorization, usage accounting, dynamic provisioning, etc.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_redshift-and-postgres-sql.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParAccel

I find it frustrating that I've never seen an @paraccel email address here and that few of the other vendors of highly customised Pg offshoots are contributing back. It's almost enough to make me like the GPL.

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