Re: PostgreSQL flavors

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org >> PG-General Mailing List" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL flavors
Date: 2016-02-23 18:29:32
Message-ID: CAFj8pRBj3PmFWS--RQ3F_bWkUDzrCka9XuOW509jb032RRHJnw@mail.gmail.com
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2016-02-23 19:26 GMT+01:00 Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>:

> On 02/23/2016 10:22 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
>>
>> Vertica was written from scratch in C++. Maybe gram.y was used from Pg.
>> But the client and SQL are strongly inspirited by Postgres. vsql is not
>> psql probably, because psql is better. Last three years is not Vertica
>> protocol compatible with Postgres. I don't know a reason why - I am
>> expecting some strange marketing
>>
>
> According to some insider sources, they broke compatibility because it was
> "faster" (without any actual performance testing). In an update release,
> no less. I've been told that they lost a bunch of users over this because
> it broke their tools with no warning.

Interesting

Thank you for info

Pavel

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> Josh Berkus
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> (any opinions are my own)
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