Clarification related to BDR

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 9:01 AM Santhosh Kumar <krssanthosh@gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi,
I came across a link published in postgresql, where it is clearly
mentioned BDR as an open source. When I tried to install BDR for CentOS
from 2ndQuadrant, the yum repository was not reachable and upon further
enquiring with 2ndQuadrant, I got a reply from them quoting as follows

"BDR is not open source. We do not have plans to open source this."

Can you please help me understand, why the following news is published in
"postgresql" with an encouraging message acknowledging BDR as an open
source? We invested time and effort to use BDR only to understand at a
later point in time, that it is not. Kindly clarify, if I am missing
anything.

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1689/

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This news is from 2016. At that time, BDR was open source, but it has since
been closed.

//Magnus

Am 14.05.20 um 06:37 schrieb Santhosh Kumar:

Can you please help me understand, why the following news is published
in "postgresql" with an encouraging message acknowledging BDR as an
open source? We invested time and effort to use BDR only to understand
at a later point in time, that it is not. Kindly clarify, if I am
missing anything.

BDR version 1 was Open Source, version 2 and 3 are not. Version 1
(patched 9.4) and Version 2 (community PG 9.6) are not under support
now, stable and supported version is 3 (PG 10 and 11, 12 soon).
You need a usage license which is bundled with a diamond support
subscription.

Regards, Andreas

--
2ndQuadrant - The PostgreSQL Support Company.
www.2ndQuadrant.com

On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 08:01, Santhosh Kumar <krssanthosh@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
I came across a link published in postgresql, where it is clearly
mentioned BDR as an open source. When I tried to install BDR for CentOS
from 2ndQuadrant, the yum repository was not reachable and upon further
enquiring with 2ndQuadrant, I got a reply from them quoting as follows

"BDR is not open source. We do not have plans to open source this."

Can you please help me understand, why the following news is published in
"postgresql" with an encouraging message acknowledging BDR as an open
source? We invested time and effort to use BDR only to understand at a
later point in time, that it is not. Kindly clarify, if I am missing
anything.

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1689/

[image: image.png]

Santhosh,

2ndQuadrant has invested time and effort into the BDR project for the last
8 years and continues to do so.

BDR1 is open source and it continues to be available on 2ndQuadrant's
GitHub: https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/bdr. This version, however, runs on
PostgreSQL 9.4 which has now reached end-of-life. 2ndQuadrant, the
developers of BDR, don't recommend using this version and also no longer
support it, nor do we provide binaries.

The recommended version is BDR3, which has a new architecture and many new
features. BDR3 has been developed under a different and more viable
economic model which allows us to provide rapid response and hot fixes for
high availability and security issues to users, as well as rapid
development of new features. Many companies are now adopting this and new
users are welcome.

We remain committed to the active contribution of major new features and
timely bug fixes to open source PostgreSQL. We will continue to contribute
features from BDR to open source PostgreSQL over time, subject to community
acceptance.

--
Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
<http://www.2ndquadrant.com/&gt;
Mission Critical Databases

On 5/14/20 12:37 AM, Santhosh Kumar wrote:

Can you please help me understand, why the following news is published
in "postgresql" with an encouraging message acknowledging BDR as an open
source?

In my opinion it is not a bright idea to not have support for any
product. Support is an indemnity against blame game. If you face a
catastrophic issue with the product and have no support team/company,
the blame will fall on you as you the person associated with the product.