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If so, one or two companies could handle fix this problem by dedicating an employee to working on Postgres.

Unfortunately, most of the likely candidates with money to throw around have their own pet database systems, and don't have in interest in Postgres.

Maybe one of the mid-sized cloud providers like Digital Ocean would be interested?

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Google the names of the committers and major contributors, and you'll see many are working for quite large enterprise-y companies ;-)

Obviously, if more companies start supporting the community, that'd be even better.

There are many Postgres forks out there. Maybe the solution will be to have someone from EDB step down, and add e.g. an active contributor from Amazon to the core team?

> an active contributor from Amazon to the core team?

That would be weird, since Amazon has no major contributors. NTT, Microsoft, Fujitsu, or another seat for Crunchy Data (among other possibilities) would seem to be more natural choices than giving a seat to Amazon, looking at major contributors.

Fujitsu is the longest standing large company.

major? More like none.

Amazon is not exactly a large contributor to postgres...

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