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Citus in PostgreSQL main would be great. Currently Citus is one of many solution but being in main would make it the solution. PostgreSQL would officially be a

• hardwaresofton 4y ago
  > Citus in PostgreSQL main would be great. Currently Citus is one of many solution but being in main would make it the solution. PostgreSQL would officially be a distributed database, not just by stacking some plugins on it. Scaling concurrent transactions (locally and horizontally across machines) has been one of the valid complaints about postgres for so long, it would be amazing to see it solved so well/reliably in-tree. This is one of the great things about pg to me -- the cottage industry of consultancies/companies that make truly awesome stuff and build viable businesses is seriously amazing. Most times they merge changes upstream (if only for the clout), and sometimes they just sprinkle gold dust on all of us. As a sidenote, I have my M$ misgivings like any other dev of a certain age, but it is amazing that they chose to do that. Not only did they provide an exit to one of the awesome companies in the space, they also released such a huge benefit to the community for free. They'll probably get their return back retaining the Citus people inside Microsoft, since obviously they're the ones making the magic.