AWS and the PostgreSQL community
summary
PostgreSQL core grows by about 300,000 C lines per year while the committer pool stays ~30 and Postgres 17 lists 463 core contributors, so maintenance pressure rises. AWS reports roughly 10% authorship of commits and about 20% of Post‑17 commits are committed by AWS engineers; ~25% of release‑note entries name AWS. Concrete upstream work includes a builtin collations implementation in Postgres 17, a libc/ICU compatibility patch to preserve index ordering, and added PG upgrade support for logical replication.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 1:51PostgreSQL community structure
- 6:30AWS work with PostgreSQL community
- 12:17Contributions to PostgreSQL
- 19:00Q&A session
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