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gtrubetskoy on March 25, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Citus Unforks from PostgreSQL, Goes Open Source

>> the PostGIS extension is GPL

But then it doesn't really belong or aim to be in PostgreSQL proper, at least IMO, so I think that's fine.

The functionality (i.e. distributed processing and horizontal scaling) that Citus has done is something that I predict will eventually be part of standard PostgreSQL, but it will not be Citus's code (unless they change the license, of course).

rch on March 25, 2016 [–]

Alternative implementations will probably surface, but those will almost certainly be packaged as extensions as well.

I think the model could work in this case, both for the business and for PostgreSQL in general.

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