Re: Clarification related to BDR

On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 08:01, Santhosh Kumar <krssanthosh(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I came across a link published in postgresql, where it is clearly
> mentioned BDR as an open source. When I tried to install BDR for CentOS
> from 2ndQuadrant, the yum repository was not reachable and upon further
> enquiring with 2ndQuadrant, I got a reply from them quoting as follows
>
> "BDR is not open source. We do not have plans to open source this."
>
> Can you please help me understand, why the following news is published in
> "postgresql" with an encouraging message acknowledging BDR as an open
> source? We invested time and effort to use BDR only to understand at a
> later point in time, that it is not. Kindly clarify, if I am missing
> anything.
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1689/
>
> [image: image.png]
>

Santhosh,

2ndQuadrant has invested time and effort into the BDR project for the last
8 years and continues to do so.

BDR1 is open source and it continues to be available on 2ndQuadrant's
GitHub: https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/bdr. This version, however, runs on
PostgreSQL 9.4 which has now reached end-of-life. 2ndQuadrant, the
developers of BDR, don't recommend using this version and also no longer
support it, nor do we provide binaries.

The recommended version is BDR3, which has a new architecture and many new
features. BDR3 has been developed under a different and more viable
economic model which allows us to provide rapid response and hot fixes for
high availability and security issues to users, as well as rapid
development of new features. Many companies are now adopting this and new
users are welcome.

We remain committed to the active contribution of major new features and
timely bug fixes to open source PostgreSQL. We will continue to contribute
features from BDR to open source PostgreSQL over time, subject to community
acceptance.

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