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I don’t think “DB OS” is a standard term, but what I believe the commenter means is that postgres has evolved to become an incredibly mature, well built set of DB building blocks that are exposed via extension APIs etc to implement whatever kind of database you want.

Sure, there’s the core row-major RDBMS you get out of the box, but could easily turn that into a distributed column-oriented analytics data warehouse if you wanted to.



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