Citus Blog

Citus is an open source extension to Postgres that transforms Postgres into a distributed database, scaling horizontally. The fact that Citus is built on top of Postgres is a huge benefit to our users: it means that when you choose Citus, you get all the great features that are available in Postgres. And Postgres itself is an awesome database. Awesome. As a team, we value the foundation we're built on and regularly aim to contribute back to it. We have a number of developers that have contributed to Postgres over the years from features like watch, event triggers, and the PostgreSQL extension framework.

Recently a few more of our engineers expressed an interest in giving back to the PostgreSQL community. In fact it's a common question, how can we better help the PostgreSQL project? And a common answer is reviewing patches. To help kick start that process we organized a session and carved out a few days just for patch review during the most recent commitfest.

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