Re: List of PostgreSQL Forks

On Thursday 01 October 2009 06:10:26 Markus Wanner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > PostGIS is not a fork. Not sure where that idea comes from.
>
> Neither do I personally consider Postgres-R a fork. I still think of it
> as a (rather huge) patch, a bit like SE-PostgreSQL. However, it clearly
> depends on your definition of what a "fork" is.
>
> Maybe "based on Postgres" or similar would better describe the list (and
> allow even more projects to be named)?
>

We use the term "Postgres derived databases" on the wiki.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_derived_databases

I'd note that we didn't think Postgres-R was beyond a big patch either, so it
isn't listed.

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