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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by poooogles on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @06:03PM (#13648133)
>Google seems to have officially closed the book on ever supporting postgresql.

Er, that's a bet I'd strongly suggest you didn't make.

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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by ecnahc515 on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @12:01AM (#13649828)
Right? Apps written to use Postgres aren't just going to be re-written to use Spanner.

If anything, hosted Postgres from Google Cloud will be priced in a way that makes Spanner some what more attractive, as a way to get conversions to Spanner in the long-run.

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