Google Cloud: Investing in the Future of PostgreSQL

Yet I don’t see Google listed as a sponsor for this year’s pgconf.dev [1], which is the main developer-focused conference in the Postgres community. All the other major players you’d expect to see listed are there. And they aren’t listed as a provider of servers for internal Postgres usage [2]. Perhaps they’re supporting the community in other ways I’m not aware of, but these seems to be some conspicuous areas where other companies are involved and Google isn’t.

[1] https://2026.pgconf.dev/sponsor

[2] https://www.postgresql.org/about/servers/

Are there similar efforts for PgVector, the PostgreSQL extension.

there now seems to be a split - with western companies tryna go all in on PostgreSQL while Eastern (Chinese) companies innovate on MysQL protocol.

MySQL for all its warts seems easier to run operationally and has a better scaling story(Vitess) than PostgreSQL. even though I use PostgreSQL.