Oracle’s ownership of MySQL AB seems to have negative impact on its development....

pgaddict · on Oct 7, 2020

I doubt that's possible, for a number of reasons.

1) Neither company owns any part of the PostgreSQL code / docs. We do have various proprietary tools, of course, but so do other companies.

2) The companies employ quite a few PostgreSQL hackers, but if you look at the development stats (e.g. http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2020/05/who-contributed-to-postgre...) you'll see there are many committers and developers in other companies.

That being said, I agree with the concerns expressed by Bruce in his blog post. Or more precisely - I do understand why people in the community have those concerns, but I believe (hope) it's not going to harm the community.

dfsegoat · on Oct 7, 2020

This is why I am thankful that Percona [1] is already involved with PG.

Percona created their own mysql distribution [2] with a number of improvements, which was quite helpful while awaiting (very long) release cycles from Oracle, for MySQL community.

1 - https://www.percona.com/software/postgresql-distribution

2 - https://www.percona.com/software/mysql-database