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Redshift for instance is still using Postgres 8 wire protocol

• psanford 6y ago
  Redshift is definitely not abandoned. AWS just announced a bunch of improvements and new features at re:invent in the last 2 weeks[0]. Its not obvious to me why supporting a newer wire format would be a high priority for AWS. I think I would rather they work on things like native JSON/semi-structured data support[1] than a new wire format. [0]: https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/whats-new/ https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/whats-new/ [1]: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/amazon-redshift-announces-support-native-json-semi-structured-data-processing/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/amazon-re...
  • Tostino 6y ago
    You will eventually run into issues when client interfaces start to drop support for old versions of the wire format to simplify their codebase.
    • trumpeta 6y ago
      This is already the case, sqlx has to now add specific support for Redshift, its not enough ti use the postgres driver as is
  • Androider 6y ago
    Amazon didn't touch Redshift for years and years, until suddenly Snowflake became a thing and then they remembered they had Redshift.
    • scarface74 6y ago
      Redshift has constantly been improved. One of Amazon’s major initiatives was to get off of Oracle and improving Redshift was a major part of that initiative.