What does Natvie Posgres mean?

2018-06-12 Thread bto...@computer.org
When someone, e.g., as appeared in a recent and some older pgsql-jobs messages, says "Native Postgres", what do you suppose that means? Does it mean something different than just "PostgreSQL"? Is the word "Native" just noise, or does it actually refer to something specific? A quick google s

Re: What does Natvie Posgres mean?

2018-06-12 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 06/12/2018 10:53 AM, bto...@computer.org wrote: When someone, e.g., as appeared in a recent and some older pgsql-jobs messages, says "Native Postgres", what do you suppose that means? I'm going to say it means the community supported versions, not offshoots or forks e.g. AWS RDS Postgres,

Re: What does Natvie Posgres mean?

2018-06-12 Thread David G. Johnston
On Tuesday, June 12, 2018, bto...@computer.org wrote: > > When someone, e.g., as appeared in a recent and some older pgsql-jobs > messages, says "Native Postgres", what do you suppose that means? > > Does it mean something different than just "PostgreSQL"? > Likely it means the open source produ

Re: What does Natvie Posgres mean?

2018-06-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 06/12/2018 10:53 AM, bto...@computer.org wrote: When someone, e.g., as appeared in a recent and some older pgsql-jobs messages, says "Native Postgres", what do you suppose that means? Does it mean something different than just "PostgreSQL"? Is the word "Native" just noise, or does it actua

Re: What does Natvie Posgres mean?

2018-06-12 Thread Benjamin Scherrey
In my experience it refers to development directly via SQL against the Postgres server rather than via an ORM like Django or the like. A remarkably high percentage of applications backed by Postgres have been written by developers that have never actually seen or written SQL code directly. It's all

Re: What does Natvie Posgres mean?

2018-06-12 Thread Ron
This, to me, is the true meaning of "native PostgreSQL" (as opposed to "stock PostgreSQL", which is uncustomized code).  However, if the job wanted post was written by an HR flunky, it could mean anything. On 06/12/2018 01:11 PM, Benjamin Scherrey wrote: In my experience it refers to *developm