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Oracle’s ownership of MySQL AB seems to have negative impact on its development. My concern, which is also raised in the article, is whether similar things will

• dfsegoat 6y ago
  This is why I am thankful that Percona [1] is already involved with PG. Percona created their own mysql distribution [2] with a number of improvements, which was quite helpful while awaiting (very long) release cycles from Oracle, for MySQL community. 1 - https://www.percona.com/software/postgresql-distribution https://www.percona.com/software/postgresql-distribution 2 - https://www.percona.com/software/mysql-database https://www.percona.com/software/mysql-database
• pgaddict 6y ago
  I doubt that's possible, for a number of reasons. 1) Neither company owns any part of the PostgreSQL code / docs. We do have various proprietary tools, of course, but so do other companies. 2) The companies employ quite a few PostgreSQL hackers, but if you look at the development stats (e.g. http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2020/05/who-contributed-to-postgresql.html http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2020/05/who-contributed-to-postgre...) you'll see there are many committers and developers in other companies. That being said, I agree with the concerns expressed by Bruce in his blog post. Or more precisely - I do understand why people in the community have those concerns, but I believe (hope) it's not going to harm the community.