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Amazon Redshift is not actually based in Postgres, it just supports a Postgres interface. It is built on top of technology from the massive parallel processing (MPP) data-warehouse company ParAccel which was acquired by Actian, and licenced by Amazon.

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> Amazon Redshift is based on PostgreSQL 8.0.2

Same wikipedia article you are quoting ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Redshift

I can confirm that Redshift is based on Postgres. And I know that straight from the source: Dave Steinhoff, one of the founders of ParAccel, is on our team.

https://www.intermix.io/about-us/

Which in turn initially was based on postgres. But there indeed isn't much in common anymore...

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