Re: PostgreSQL Timeline

From: Dan Ports <drkp(at)csail(dot)mit(dot)edu>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: MARK CALLAGHAN <mdcallag(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Timeline
Date: 2013-09-18 20:37:08
Message-ID: 20130918203708.GB12275@cs.washington.edu
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 03:09:52PM -0500, Josh Berkus wrote:
> A quick test demonstrates pretty clearly that Vertica is using a forked
> version of psql as its client, at least. Given this use of Pg code,
> it's fairly likely that there's PG code elsewhere as well; to date,
> Stonebraker has reused some Postgres code in every one of his projects.

Last I heard, they were using only the Postgres parser and query
rewriter. The client code (psql, ODBC libraries, etc) used to be based
on Postgres too -- I'd gotten the impression that was no longer the
case, but I might be mistaken about that.

Dan

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