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Craig here from Citus. We're actually a bit different than past forks. Many years ago Citus itself was a fork, but about 3 years ago we became a pure extension[
by craigkerstiens 8y ago
Craig here from Citus. We're actually a bit different than past forks. Many years ago Citus itself was a fork, but about 3 years ago we became a pure extension[1]. This means we hook into lower level extension APIs[2] that exist within Postgres and are able to stay current with the latest Postgres versions.
[1]. https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/03/24/citus-unforks-goes-open-source/ https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/03/24/citus-unforks-goes...
[2]. https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/10/25/what-it-means-to-be-a-postgresql-extension/ https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/10/25/what-it-means-to-b...
- cdbattags 8y agoHoly wow! Thanks for the response! Yep, I love the fact that y'all went the extension route much like https://www.timescale.com/ https://www.timescale.com/ and others.
- anarazel 8y agoI think Citus was the first PG fork to "unfork"... (yes yes, I'm biased, I worked my ass off making that happen)
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- sytse 8y agoCongrats on the acquisition. I love that the complete extension is open source and will stay available: "And we will continue to actively participate in the Postgres community, working on the Citus open source extension as well as the other open source Postgres extensions you love.". As we continue to grow GitLab this Citus is the leading option to scale out database out. I'm glad that this option will still be there tomorrow.
- jaxn 8y agoAs a very happy Citus customer, the extension being open source is very important. And at the same time, I hope I never have to manage my own clusters again and who better to manage it than the team that built it.
- asah 8y agouser here: can confirm.