On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 10:12:09PM -0800, Christophe Pettus wrote: > Hello, > > I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding here about how > PostgreSQL's licensing works. > > You do not pay for the community version of PostgreSQL. The license > specifically states it is available without a fee. It's free. No one > collects money for the community version of PostgreSQL. > > There's no "enterprise" version of PostgreSQL that is provided by the > community. It's just PostgreSQL. > > There are vendors which provide either commercial versions of > PostgreSQL based on the community version, or which provide commercial > support for PostgreSQL, but those are separate things from the > PostgreSQL community version, and you would need to talk to the > individual companies to find out what their arrangements are. I have blogged about this confusion: https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2023.html#September_1_2023 -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com When a patient asks the doctor, "Am I going to die?", he means "Am I going to die soon?"
