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Re:AWS CloudShell by trumpeta on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:31PM (#25435514)
Redshift for instance is still using Postgres 8 wire protocol
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Re:AWS CloudShell by psanford on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:15PM (#25435950)
Redshift is definitely not abandoned. AWS just announced a bunch of improvements and new features at re:invent in the last 2 weeks[0].

Its not obvious to me why supporting a newer wire format would be a high priority for AWS. I think I would rather they work on things like native JSON/semi-structured data support[1] than a new wire format.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/whats-new/ [1]: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/amazon-re...

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Re:AWS CloudShell by Androider on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:59PM (#25438538)
Amazon didn't touch Redshift for years and years, until suddenly Snowflake became a thing and then they remembered they had Redshift.
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Re:AWS CloudShell by scarface74 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @11:08PM (#25438942)
Redshift has constantly been improved. One of Amazon’s major initiatives was to get off of Oracle and improving Redshift was a major part of that initiative.
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Re:AWS CloudShell by Tostino on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @06:33PM (#25436888)
You will eventually run into issues when client interfaces start to drop support for old versions of the wire format to simplify their codebase.
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Re:AWS CloudShell by trumpeta on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:05AM (#25439877)
This is already the case, sqlx has to now add specific support for Redshift, its not enough ti use the postgres driver as is
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