PgEdge Goes Open Source(www.pgedge.com)
119 pointsby Bogdanp2 days ago10 comments
  • kstrauser2 days ago
    And under the PostgreSQL license, an actual OSI approved one, not a fake open source in name only monstrosity. Very nice!
    • hxtk2 days ago
      If you're referring to the post from yesterday, they actually relicensed it as Apache 2.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45196173
      • kstrauser2 days ago
        No, I had in mind different recent announcements when companies selected closed licenses that let you look at the code but not actually use it, then bragged about open sourcing their project.
        • DetroitThrow2 days ago
          Announcement title and actual license divergence has made reading these announcements a bit of a chore on HN since you're required now to read the full post. Good on these guys for not open washing their project.

          And of course it doesn't help the tedium of reading HN that there's 5 very vocal commentators who want to the world to know that "OSI doesn't own the definition of open source", even though when asked will define open source as "can be commercially restricted".

  • nik7362 days ago
    Anyone has any experience with PgEdge and can tell us about reliability? :-)
    • emarsden2 days ago
      They have an open issue concerning a SIGILL when loading the pgvector extension that hasn't been fixed or seen any activity in a month.

         https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-docker/issues/20
    • Daril2 days ago
      I wanted to try it months ago ... but I stopped when I read in the install documentation :

      To configure passwordless sudo, open the /etc/sudoers file, and add a line of the form: %username ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

      And the same user should have a password less SSH access with private key ...

      • Valodim11 hours ago
        Honest question, what's the problem with that? Hinging admin access for some machine on an ssh key seems like not too unusual practice?
        • Daril3 minutes ago
          From a security point of view, I am not comfortable giving a user unlimited access to the server. I don't know what solution pgEdge is implementing, but granting full access to the server when it should only operate on PostgreSQL is a security concern for me.
      • 0x6c6f6c18 hours ago
        It could do better for sure, but it's a just a Get Started guide, I never consider that a Production Ready guide.
  • tw042 days ago
    I think it’s great they’re opening it up. I hope they have a plan to defend when the hyperscalers show up to pillage beyond providing cloud containers and VMs as a paid service.
  • kseca day ago
    Is PgEdge Vitess of MySQL ?

    I assume given there are two Vitess for Postgres being worked on now they have decided to open source it?

  • atombender2 days ago
    Weird, I posted this yesterday, why didn't HN detect the duplicate? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45203769
    • WolfOliver2 days ago
      Your's has to little upvotes. I think it is only detected as duplicate if it had made the front page in the last few months.
      • atombender2 days ago
        Hm, I've had my submissions deduped before, where the existing post also had few upvotes and was definitely not on the front page.
        • hu32 days ago
          same
  • bigwheelsa day ago
    I appreciate the open source foundation! Is the goal of pgEdge functionally aligned or divergent from what CitusDB offers?
  • justinclifta day ago
    This is good news. :)
  • fdefilippo2 days ago
    [dead]
  • qaq2 days ago
    They really need to dial back on marketing bs. async multimaster takes away consistency. Piling on NewSQL DBS for slow synchronous writes to a quorum of nodes WTF?
  • darqis2 days ago
    I can't tell what it actually is. Too much marketing babble
    • eXpl0it3r2 days ago
      > pgEdge is a modern distributed database system built on standard PostgreSQL that’s designed for geo-distribution, high availability, and low latency — especially useful for "edge" deployments.

      Had to look elsewhere as well...

      • benjiroa day ago
        YugabyteDB / CockroachDB like from that description. Curios to see how it competes with multigres.
      • jmhollaa day ago
        Also, in that same vein of caginess, they don't call out their pricing. It's one of those, "contact sales" services.