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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by hendzen on Thursday June 11, 2015 @08:07PM (#9703211)
Can Postgres do distributed transactions? Oracle can.
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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by Sanddancer on Thursday June 11, 2015 @08:15PM (#9703244)
Yes. Federated tables was added in Postgres 9.3.
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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by nl on Friday June 12, 2015 @04:25AM (#9704645)
Federated tables are not the same thing as federated transaction.
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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by cpach on Friday June 12, 2015 @01:23AM (#9704215)
Cool! But that release is less than two years old, which I would say is quite short time for the kind of companies that use Oracle.

[Edit: Clarified the wording.]

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