On: Prolog language for PostgreSQL proof of concept

[rad_gruchalski]

There’s one thing Postgres doesn’t provide. It doesn’t provide a supplier who a company can put their liability on. A supplier who can fix the problem in Postgres code and maintain it with authority.

But don’t get me wrong. Postgres is an awesome database system.

[Jedd → rad_gruchalski]

What does 'put their liability on' mean to you?

Because I suspect it does not mean what I think you think it means.

(Typically the EULA of all those non-Postgres systems are 'this is sold as is, no warranty as to suitability to your purpose, yada yada'

Often times people believe that if they're paying many monies for a support contract, that means they can relocate their liability to that company. Almost every time, that company has better lawyers / contract writers.

[rad_gruchalski → Jedd]

the product is sold as such but there are support contracts to cover everything else

[vincnetas → rad_gruchalski]

i beg to differ: Professional Services

https://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support/

[qweqwe14 → vincnetas]

SQLite has this as well, although it's use cases are different: https://sqlite.org/com/member.html

They have multiple tiers of support as well, pretty interesting read

[rad_gruchalski → vincnetas]

Most of these are consultants specialising in hosting and “consulting”. There’s even AWS in there. How much does it cost to be on that list?

[marcosdumay → rad_gruchalski]

Oh, good luck getting this from any of Oracle, Microsoft or IBM... But actually, you usually can get those for Postgres.

Potsgres is the one general purpose DBMS out there that you can hire a company to actually solve your problems.