Re: Impact on PostgreSQL due to Redhat acquisition by IBM

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 8:06 AM Sachin Kotwal <kotsachin(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi PostgreSQL lovers,
>
> I heard news that Redhat is going to acquired by IBM. IBM has its on
> database. And they have history of selling applications with their own
> hardware (software and hardware together).
>
> As per my knowledge PostgreSQL community has better support for Redhat
> family than any other platforms.
>

I don't know that is the case. PostgreSQL support is different on Debian,
RedHat, Gentoo, etc. The Debian folks, for example have a lot of tooling
around running many different instances of different versions on the same
host (as does Gentoo by the way). In that respect, RedHat seems behind ;-)
On the other hand, that lack of functionality means running it on RedHat
is a bit simpler if more limited.

I say this as someone who has a lot of experience running PostgreSQL on all
of the above. The platforms are different in how they approach PostgreSQL
and what they want you to be able to do with it.

>
> Does community is going to support/focus more Debian platforms ?
>

As the community is growing I suspect that all platforms will get more
focus. But usually the question is what the distro does to support
PostgreSQL for their own use cases.

> Does community has any plan to switch their main supported platform?
>

That question makes no sense. We don't have a main supported platform.

> Please share if any other plan.
>
>
> --
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Sachin Kotwal
>

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