Late to the discussion. As others have pointed out, PostgreSQL is plenty modern and capable. Whatever a “modern” database did that Postgres didn’t, would show u

Late to the discussion. As others have pointed out, PostgreSQL is plenty modern and capable. Whatever a “modern” database did that Postgres didn’t, would show up in Postgres soon after said “new” technology had stood the public test of “is it worth it.” There’s a variant of the question that interests me though. It’s said that much of large scale software now days is built the way we build our cities. One layer on top of another on top of another. Even though a city like London is large and capable and full featured, it has years of history below it. And sometimes that slow evolution even complicates things. Some might argue, that if we had unlimited resources, we could go find a nice new piece of virgin ground and build a New London, that could be simplified and not contend with its historical baggage. So by analogue, if we could respin a fresh new simplified/unified/rationalized version of postgresql today, what would it look like?