Google has clarified details of the interface between its popular distributed SQL database-management-cum-storage-service Spanner and the open-source RDBMS PostgreSQL. According to a blog published this week, Spanner’s PostgreSQL interface uses “the familiarity and portability of PostgreSQL” to make developers’ lives easier.

Source: LXer – Spanner in the works: The goal is not 100% compatibility, Google says of PostgreSQL interface