Andrei Lepikhov: Why your pioneering Postgres feature should start in a fork

At a Postgres meetup in Melbourne, I finally got a straight answer to a question that had nagged me for quite a long time: why do people actually choose Postgres? It isn't an idle question for me — I spend my days reading field reports and designing planner features, and keep seeing how much smarter some other databases are. The gap has narrowed drastically over the last ten years, but even now some SQL Server techniques still execute certain queries much faster. The answer I got was disarming: ' Postgres is just good enough for our purposes. ' Think about what that means. Open source, no vend