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Re:An unexpected journey, a Postgres DBA's tale by vinothgopi on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @09:12AM (#12209652)
Amazon RDS is the managed version of Postgres (among other flavors of relational DBs). Maybe you are confusing it with Redshift.

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/

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Re:An unexpected journey, a Postgres DBA's tale by rplst8 on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @12:54PM (#12211289)
Isn't Redshift also based on PostgreSQL? Edit: it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Redshift and RDS supports many different RDBMS flavors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Relational_Database_Ser...
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Re:An unexpected journey, a Postgres DBA's tale by heneryville on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @01:38PM (#12211605)
Redshift is based on PestgreSQL, but is vastly different. Redshift is a columnar store, and can't do things like create indexes. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_SQL_commands...
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