Driving fully open source enterprise readiness for Postgres
summary
Pakona builds and ships Postgres as curated packages and notably implements transparent data encryption as Postgres extensions (not core patches), ships it in the Pakona distribution, and coordinates with proprietary fork teams—four people attend a Vancouver meetup to align effort. Pakona also rescues critical tooling: the 13‑year‑old PG BackRest project goes from multiple maintainers to archived, and within three weeks Pakona funds the maintainer and commits engineering resources so the project is revived and maintained collaboratively.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Open source Postgres readiness
- 1:55Curation and packaging
- 3:00Support for open source DBs
- 4:45Community versus enterprise gaps
- 5:49Transparent data encryption
- 8:17Reviving PG BackRest
- 10:01Sustainable project funding
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