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PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small airplane crash (m6n.io)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/postgresql
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PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small airplane crash, on Tuesday.

For those who didn't know Simon, he's responsible for PostgreSQL Binary Replication and many big data features. He and I worked together at Greenplum 2006-2008. Postgres would not be the world-leading DB it is today if it weren't for him.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjex992z0wlo

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[–] recursive_recursion 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What the fuck????

after searching online I also found this: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/remembering-simon-riggs-2830/

what the hell

I can't believe this is true but it seems to be real
god damn this is so sudden

I'm sorry for the loss of a beloved core maintainer for the Postgres community

god the box story
I can't 😂

again thank you for sharing🌻