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I would be. its been years and google and has been building out various pieces of infrastructure around mysql - including cloud spanner. the issue is that the

I would be. its been years and google and has been building out various pieces of infrastructure around mysql - including cloud spanner. the issue is that the migration path of self hosted mysql to cloud sql to spanner is pretty well defined. I dont see postgresql being strategically important or relevant to google for anything. if I was a startup deciding on my database, there's a lot less compelling reasons to choose postgresql from the point of view of long term viability. hell, I can pretty much do a back of the envelope calculation on how much will it cost me to support 100 million users on mysql. Is it safe to think that Evernote and Snapchat - startups who are giant success stories - are google mysql hosted? (in some form.. maybe even spanner) So uber, snapchat, Google, Evernote and a clear cut path for upward scale. I have very less hope for postgresql on google cloud.

manigandham 10y ago
You keep saying this - have you actually talked to them? Find some PMs and send a few emails. Postgres is definitely in progress.
dragonwriter 10y ago
> its been years and google and has been building out various pieces of infrastructure around mysql - including cloud spanner. What does Cloud Spanner have to do with MySQL? It's neither API nor SQL-dialect compatible with MySQL. If there are MySQL bits used somewhere in the implementation, they are well hidden, and irrelevant to users. > the issue is that the migration path of self hosted mysql to cloud sql to spanner is pretty well defined. So what? Were there a Cloud SQL-like Postgres offering, the same would be true; Spanner is no closer to MySQL than Postgres. (If anything, it's SQL dialect is a little closer to Postgres's dialect than MySQL's, though not so much that you'll get away without doing substantial conversion going from either.)

manigandham 10y ago

You keep saying this - have you actually talked to them? Find some PMs and send a few emails. Postgres is definitely in progress.

dragonwriter 10y ago

> its been years and google and has been building out various pieces of infrastructure around mysql - including cloud spanner. What does Cloud Spanner have to do with MySQL? It's neither API nor SQL-dialect compatible with MySQL. If there are MySQL bits used somewhere in the implementation, they are well hidden, and irrelevant to users. > the issue is that the migration path of self hosted mysql to cloud sql to spanner is pretty well defined. So what? Were there a Cloud SQL-like Postgres offering, the same would be true; Spanner is no closer to MySQL than Postgres. (If anything, it's SQL dialect is a little closer to Postgres's dialect than MySQL's, though not so much that you'll get away without doing substantial conversion going from either.)