Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

It's interesting to see this launch just days after Heroku Postgres 2.0 (https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2013/11/11/heroku_post...). I would like to see a thorough comparison.

I'm happy to see that this appears to be a full-featured (or near fully featured) service that includes postgis and hstore.

I'm looking forward to seeing the inevitable rds vs comparably priced heroku benchmarks.

Really happy to see this.

The only thing that seems to be missing is pl/v8 support. In case anyone from amazon is reading this, I've noticed that the functions floating around on github for the new json data type are using pl/v8, and I suspect this will only become more common.

Why is PostgreSQL more expensive than MySQL?

I'll just leave this here:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Things_to_find_out_about_whe...

Plus, I've heard that mysql will ignore maxlength for chars, causing issues when moving those to postgres.

As someone who's never used RDS - does this let you adjust the postgresql.conf settings? Specifically interested in turning off synchronous commit or adjusting shared_buffers. If that is possible this would be a godsend.

Great feature!