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The purpose of extensions is they allow you to run stuff without including it in core database. What language should be used for this case to avoid confusion in future?

Postgres-BDR works very well for its intended business use case, which is geographically distributed multiple master database. Master-slave replication is not comparable cos there …

If you have users in various locations, all of whom would like local access to a copy of the database.

Postgres-R is dead. No need to look. Postgres-XC has never implemented multi-master, so don't look there. Postgres-XZ, if it exists, is a closed-source fork of XC by a Chinese comp…

"Everything after "Basically" is misleading and inaccurate. The conclusions here are not logical: The existence of some restrictions does not imply "Transactions are a lie", since …

I agree that you should use the best tools for the current project. That is why we need to discuss which tool is the best and in what cases, which is all we've been doing here: pro…

I believe the blog site does run MySQL. We eat our own dogfood wherever possible, especially on important services... we hadn't regarded the blog site in the same category until no…

Which is exactly what happened and we fixed it fairly quickly, within the SLA we offer to customers. So I'm happy. I accept all of the humour on that point with a grin myself, thou…

9.1 to 9.5/9.6 upgrade should be available for customers by Oct

I've tried to produce a full reply to most of the technical points raised there. http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/thoughts-on-ubers-list-of-postgr...