Re: Ingres & PostgreSQL

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Nicholas Wieland <nicholas(at)segec(dot)it>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Ingres & PostgreSQL
Date: 2004-06-03 18:32:12
Message-ID: 20040603183212.GA20979@trantor.fam-meskes.de
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On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:26:19PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I'm writing a text in Italian on PostgreSQL, and I need to know something
> > about the correlation between Ingres (1977) and Postgres (1986).
> > Pointers are welcome,
>
> Both were developed at Berkeley, but no code is shared between the two.

Both by Prof. Stonebreaker who appearently is the only person that
was involved in both projects, or is there anyone else?

Michael

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