NewsForge: User Companies Pool on PostgreSQL Enhancement

“When faced with a pay-now or wait-for-functionality choice,
several companies that use PostgreSQL recently pooled their
resources and paid for development of faster, deeper indexing
capabilities in the open source database.

“The effort resulted in row-level locking in the GiST indexing
system that bolsters PostgreSQL’s enterprise-readiness, and
reflects a paradigm for greater user support of open source
software projects…”

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