On 04/25/2013 10:55 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > It's an Amazon product based on release 8.0, but with many many > features removed (e.g. Indexes!) More specifically, it's a hacked-up column-store-ized Pg for OLAP and analytics work. As I understand it Amazon didn't develop it themselves; they bought/licensed Paraccel ( http://www.paraccel.com/) and customised to integrated into Amazon's IAM authentication/authorization, usage accounting, dynamic provisioning, etc.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_redshift-and-postgres-sql.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParAccel I find it frustrating that I've never seen an @paraccel email address here and that few of the other vendors of highly customised Pg offshoots are contributing back. It's almost enough to make me like the GPL. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
