I'm not particularly familiar with how PostgreSQL development is done. I suspect it carries a lot of baggage from the past releases, both good and bad. I hope t

I'm not particularly familiar with how PostgreSQL development is done. I suspect it carries a lot of baggage from the past releases, both good and bad. I hope the team will see the value in structuring the product in such a way that users of the product won't feel themselves making a hard choice taking PostgreSQL for new projects - or maintaining it in existing systems. > Which RDBMS provider/vendor has set the bar high for themselves in regard to standards compliance and achieved it? I think we had better compliance to the standards in DB industry as a whole some years ago, but that's just a feeling. I think we have right now better compliance to the standards - as in industry mostly following standards within, say, 5 years - in branches of engineering like compilers and browsers. In open source SQL engines PostgreSQL is overall one of the strongest propositions which I recommend often. However you don't maintain your lead if you don't recognize your weak points.