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Sounds like time to build up a new postgres serverless company and get acquihired/exited!

There's still Xata. And plenty of other options that support a Postgres compatible API like CockroachDB and Yugabyte.

The problem is there's so much sprawl in this postgres ecosystem that it seems like no one other than the hyperscalers is really able to reach a escape velocity...

Yugabyte is Postgres from my understanding. They recently rebased from 12 to 15, I think.

I thought they were slowly closing the car in terms of capabilities

If everyone in this sector is getting lucrative acquisitions, that should encourage more copycats.

I feel like the history of anti-trust regulation in America has something to say about that...

That only works if there are moats that discourage new entrants (e.g., buying a social media upstart works because of the network effect).

Not obvious serverless postgres is in that category.

there's only so many buyers