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Re:Amazon Redshift - What You Need To Know by superails on Sunday September 29, 2013 @08:54PM (#6467240)
> Redshift smelled enough like PostgreSQL

I'm curious. How does something smell like Postgres? Does it use some of the same PG-specific datatypes?

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Re:Amazon Redshift - What You Need To Know by kungfooey on Sunday September 29, 2013 @09:04PM (#6467259)
It uses similar data types and has a similar API. The differences between the two are summarized in the documentation.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_redshift-and...

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Re:Amazon Redshift - What You Need To Know by tmarthal on Monday September 30, 2013 @01:41PM (#6470993)
Not only does it use the same datatypes, but I know that it uses the same pg wire format such that the java (and I'm sure python) postgres drivers work out of the box.
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