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Redshift smelled enough like PostgreSQL

I'm curious. How does something smell like Postgres? Does it use some of the same PG-specific datatypes?

It uses similar data types and has a similar API. The differences between the two are summarized in the documentation.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_redshift-and...

Not only does it use the same datatypes, but I know that it uses the same pg wire format such that the java (and I'm sure python) postgres drivers work out of the box.

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