21 pointsby kevincox11 hours ago4 comments
  • h4kunamata14 minutes ago
    Just like that, PostgreSQL will be joing the exotic club: pfSense, Ubiquiti, Red Hat and Canonical.

    US Tech companies do nothing without long term goals, watch PostgreSQL being acquired by Google.

    Remember, these things happen within closed door, we will never know until it is already too late. Google closed Android source close, expecting nothing good from this "investiment"

  • jbonatakis4 hours ago
    Yet I don’t see Google listed as a sponsor for this year’s pgconf.dev [1], which is the main developer-focused conference in the Postgres community. All the other major players you’d expect to see listed are there. And they aren’t listed as a provider of servers for internal Postgres usage [2]. Perhaps they’re supporting the community in other ways I’m not aware of, but these seems to be some conspicuous areas where other companies are involved and Google isn’t.

    [1] https://2026.pgconf.dev/sponsor

    [2] https://www.postgresql.org/about/servers/

  • aurohacker3 hours ago
    Are there similar efforts for PgVector, the PostgreSQL extension.
  • dzonga4 hours ago
    there now seems to be a split - with western companies tryna go all in on PostgreSQL while Eastern (Chinese) companies innovate on MysQL protocol.

    MySQL for all its warts seems easier to run operationally and has a better scaling story(Vitess) than PostgreSQL. even though I use PostgreSQL.

    • h4kunamata5 minutes ago
      PostgreSQL and MariaDB are fully open-source, and non-US companies have had enough of US tech companies.

      Assuming what you are seeing is true, I doubt it, MySQL is owned by Oracle so unless Chinese companies living in a cave, I doubt it again, and missed what Oracle has done recently, if you have a business and it is investing into MySQL, your business is set for failure in the near future!

    • vivzkestrel16 minutes ago
      define better scaling