On 11/3/25 8:59 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 08:20:21AM -0800, Adrian Klaver wrote:
On 11/3/25 08:01, Bruce Momjian wrote:
On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 04:39:45PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
Am 2025-11-03 16:08, schrieb Bruce Momjian:
Again a distinction without a difference.
If you go here:
https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/
and look at the names under Core Team and Major Contributors, out of 59
names only 6 do not list a company name. Companies live at the heart of the
community. Hence the the policy of no company having no more then 50%(?) of
the Core team.
The issue is that interacting with external companies is rarely done by
the community, so if you need to get community software to interact with
external software, the external software vendor has to get involved with
the community, and for non-Postgres-focused external companies, that is
a big hurdle. Companies have many employees who can make it their job
to get the integration working, as has happened with the many
company-controlled Postgres TDE solutions.
To be specific it is a customer service issue.
So why is this page:
https://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support/
"Commercial support is available from many different companies providing
professional services to the PostgreSQL community."
not a solution done by the community?
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Adrian Klaver
[email protected]
