Comment Comment by castorp > rather than RedshiftDespite what the Amazon marketing is telling, Redshift is not really a "fork" of Postgres.To my knowledge they only used the SQL parser and the wire protocol from Postgres.The optimizer, query executor and storage engine are totally different. The whole "Redshift is Postgres" is complete marketing BS in my opinion. parent castorp 3 years ago
Despite what the Amazon marketing is telling, Redshift is not really a "fork" of Postgres.
To my knowledge they only used the SQL parser and the wire protocol from Postgres.
The optimizer, query executor and storage engine are totally different. The whole "Redshift is Postgres" is complete marketing BS in my opinion.