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PostgreSQL is also one of the most impressive projects out there in terms of being community maintained, as opposed to many large FOSS projects which have some kind of corporate backing employing the majority of the core team.

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Isn't the good part of the core team part of EnterpriseDB?

3 of 7 work at EDB, and the core team doesn’t drive the project roadmap. And EDB hackers fail to get patches in all the time, just like everyone else :)

You can see a break-down of the core team and major contributors here, as well as their current company affiliation: https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/

(and as noted in the other comment, whilst EDB certainly makes important contributions, they are one of many)

TIL Julian Assange was a contributor to PostgreSQL

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