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Looks like it, yeah. Also, Postgres 12 introduced pluggable storage, which might help to implement a shared-nothing architecture without huge changes to vanill

• jeff-davis 5y ago
  Citus Data enables scale out, while also being a pure extension. That means you can upgrade Postgres like normal to the latest point release using whatever normal upgrade process you want (e.g. OS packages). It has worked for a long time without the need for Postgres 12. However, the new APIs introduced in v12 did enable us to offer columnar compression as an option, which complements a lot of scale-out use cases. See: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/03/06/citus-10-columnar-compression-for-postgres/ https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/03/06/citus-10-columnar-... I believe using the extension facilities of Postgres is far superior to a fork in the medium to long term. (Disclaimer: I work for Citus, and on columnar compression.)
  • pella 5y ago
    > I work for Citus, and on columnar compression. :-) I am waiting for the basic index support for columnar tables ! https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/4950 https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/4950 :-)