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Your comment doesn’t seem to be in good faith. What cloud company is pushing this through?

Depending on your definition of "cloud", all major PG contributors offer some sort of commercial or hosted solution.

Citrus is part of Microsoft/Azure and EnterpriseDB offers hosting orchestrated on VMs and another option on Kubernetes.

I think most of the people in the discussion were some variety of those companies.

If you click through the links in TFA, the three people pushing this feature all work for Enterprise DB (EDB?)

I wanted to clarify that I (Jelte, the author of the final patch) work at Microsoft. So, it's definitely not just one company seeing benefit in this feature. Arguably Microsoft is a cloud company too though, but honestly most of the active contributors to PostgreSQL work at a "cloud company".

Fair points!

Okay, but EDB is the largest corporate contributor to Postgres, and one of the people pushing against the feature (Bruce Momjian) also works for EDB?

The PG community is a lot of things, but I think “dominated by commercial interests” is not one of them.

Disclosure: I work at EDB :)

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