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jacques_chester on July 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: PostgREST – REST API from any PostgreSQL database

The classic fear of lock-in was vendor lock-in.

Does Oracle or Sybase own Postgres? Nope.

There's nobody with a legal hand on your throat.

spacemanmatt on July 23, 2015 [–]

I have presided over a couple of to-PostgreSQL migrations but I've only heard of one away-from-PostgreSQL migration, and it was Skype when MS bought it.

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