[brand]

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

[nijave]

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.

[camgunz]

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

[brand]

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 :)

[JelteF]

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".

[camgunz]

Fair points!