Will Postgres Live Forever?
summary
Argues that Postgres survives because open source follows a different lifecycle than proprietary software, with 32 years of development and a cadence of annual major releases plus quarterly minors delivering 180 features per release. Describes concrete innovations—JSON/GIN indexes, PostGIS, range types, foreign data wrappers, logical replication and a multi-node sharding prototype still ~1–2 years from production—and notes BSD license and community-driven forks can resurrect projects (Falcon 4 example). Claims longevity equals continued usefulness.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Start
- 6:49How Does Proprietary Software Get Created
- 7:22Stage 2
- 7:47Stage 3
- 10:41Maintenance Mode
- 13:34Market Growth
- 18:32Proprietary Development
- 26:46When Does Software Die
- 29:19Open Source Adoption
- 30:50Reason for Open-Source Is Innovation
- 34:43System Tables for Postgres
- 35:33Add a New Data Type
- 36:01Indexing Types
- 36:33Full Text Search Built into Postgres
- 37:03No Sequel
- 37:26Range Types
- 39:02Data Analytics
