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		hendzen on June 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Softwa... Can Postgres do distributed transactions? Oracle can.

Sanddancer on June 12, 2015 [–]

Yes. Federated tables was added in Postgres 9.3.

nl on June 12, 2015 | | [–]

Federated tables are not the same thing as federated transaction.

cpach on June 12, 2015 | | [–]

Cool! But that release is less than two years old, which I would say is quite short time for the kind of companies that use Oracle.

[Edit: Clarified the wording.]

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