Re: PostgreSQL Timeline

Where are the references that Vertica is sort-of a PG fork and that
Paraccel is a PG fork? Quick searches of the interweb finds claims that
they are not. Not sure you need to bring doubt to the rest of the details
in an excellent slide deck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParAccel
http://www.dbms2.com/2008/12/29/paraccel-actually-uses-relatively-little-postgresql-code/
http://www.dbms2.com/2008/03/06/postgresql-can-be-used-in-a-lot-of-different-ways/

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

> Damien,
>
> This looks like fun!
>
> I'm not necessarily comfortable with an unqualified link from Ingres to
> Postgres; can you make it a dotted line or something? The reason I say
> this is that Stonebraker was quite firm that there was no code re-use
> from Ingres to Postgres, since he was legally prevented from such copying.
>
> Link to my presentation Elephant Roads, which goes over a bunch of the
> commercial forks as of 2009:
>
> http://de.slideshare.net/pgconf/elephant-roads-a-tour-of-postgres-forks
>
> Of course, there's been more since then.
>
> And some earlier ones which I didn't know about, like mSQL (and, by
> extension, MySQL).
>
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