Will Azure have the functionality to support community edition of timescale DB on azure postgres flexible servers?

Question

We have made the effort from moving to vm based postgres to Azure postgres flexible servers. During the transition we realized that azure Postgres flexible servers do not support community edition of timescale DB which has aggregates features etc. will this change or do we start looking into other alternatives?

Answer 1

Hi Suhale Ahmed Shaik,

I believe currently, there is no other way to use the community edition of the TimescaleDB extension on Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server, as it supports the Apache version.

The only viable option going would be to build own VM to make use of the community license.

Thank you!

Answer 2

@Suhale Ahmed Shaik Thank you for reaching out.

In addition to @RahulRandive answer above.

We only support free version of timescale under apache license. Community version is under proprietary TSL (timescale license) and outside of timescale itself isn't supported by public cloud vendors.  We have no plans to support proprietary licensed extensions as stated in docs. more on licensing - Timescale Documentation | Compare TimescaleDB editions.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Oury