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by pantulis 5 days ago
How are 3 developers going to sell that to any company? Procurement will have a field day.
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rswail 5 days ago
They have funding. That's what it will be for. I wish them well and appreciate that people are still doing FOSS.

As long as they don't get undercut by the equivalent of AWS https://aws.amazon.com/rds/proxy/ which is a managed pgbouncer.

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999900000999 5 days ago
The issue is if the DB layer fails your product is going to completely stop working.

You’d need a ton of faith in these 3 people.

Feels more like it would work better inside of a bigger organization.

The QA tester in me is kinda risk adverse.

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rswail 4 days ago
The source code is available for inspection as is the biographies of the people involved.

They rely on the libraries that are part of Postgres itself to ensure they are parsing the SQL etc "correctly" (where "correct" means "the same as Postgres itself).

Bigger organizations do not necessarily mean higher quality.

What bigger organization is testing PostgreSQL itself?

What are the relative quality measurements of Postgres vs MariaDB vs Oracle vs SQL Server?

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999900000999 4 days ago
MariaDB has over 200 employees.

https://mariadb.com/about-us/careers/

Oracle's department that handles DBs probably has at least a few hundred.

3 people would be an ultra lean QA department for a product like this.

I'd have a hard time convincing my boss to go with PGDog over a more stable and tested solution.

This doesn't mean it's bad, just not ready yet

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