I’m pleased to say that Postgres-BDR is on its way to PostgreSQL 9.6, and even better, it works without a patched PostgreSQL.

BDR has always been an extension, but on 9.4 it required a heavily patched PostgreSQL, one that isn’t fully on-disk-format compatible with stock community PostgreSQL 9.4. The goal all along has been to allow it to run as an extension on an unmodified PostgreSQL … and now we’re there.

The years of effort we at 2ndQuadrant have put into getting the series of patches from BDR into PostgreSQL core have paid off. As of PostgreSQL 9.6, the only major patch that Postgres-BDR on 9.4 has that PostgreSQL core doesn’t, is the sequence access method patch that powers global sequences.

This means that Postgres-BDR on 9.6 will not support global sequences, at least not the same way they exist in 9.4. The 9.6 version will incorporate a different approach to handling sequences on distributed systems, and in the process address some issues that arose when using global sequences in production.

Source: BDR is coming to PostgreSQL 9.6 |