Google Cloud: Investing in the Future of PostgreSQL

dzonga

there now seems to be a split - with western companies tryna go all in on PostgreSQL while Eastern (Chinese) companies innovate on MysQL protocol. MySQL for all its warts seems easier to run operationally and has a better scaling story(Vitess) than PostgreSQL. even though I use PostgreSQL.

jbonatakis

Yet I don’t see Google listed as a sponsor for this year’s pgconf.dev [1], which is the main developer-focused conference in the Postgres community. All the other major players you’d expect to see listed are there. And they aren’t listed as a provider of servers for internal Postgres usage [2]. Perhaps they’re supporting the community in other ways I’m not aware of, but these seems to be some conspicuous areas where other companies are involved and Google isn’t. [1] https://2026.pgconf.dev/sponsor [2] https://www.postgresql.org/about/servers/

aurohacker

Are there similar efforts for PgVector, the PostgreSQL extension.

h4kunamata

Just like that, PostgreSQL will be joing the exotic club: pfSense, Ubiquiti, Red Hat and Canonical. US Tech companies do nothing without long term goals, watch PostgreSQL being acquired by Google. Remember, these things happen within closed door, we will never know until it is already too late. Google closed Android source close, expecting nothing good from this "investiment"