Re: "Too far out of the mainstream"

2012/9/1 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> 1) While MySQL is perhaps better marketed, PostgreSQL is an older project
>>> with a proud heritage (Informix started as a Postgres fork), and top-rate
>
>> Pretty sure that's not true. Ingres is a cousin of Postgres started
>> by the same guy, Stonebraker, but it's not a fork either.
>
> He didn't say Ingres.
>
> Illustra was a commercial fork of Postgres (the pre-SQL versions, I
> think). It was later bought out by Informix. I don't have any info
> on how much of that code base survives in the modern (IBM-owned)
> version of Informix - but one could assume there's at least some.

true, Illustra was comercial fork of PostgreSQL with SQL and blades
from 1991. Later Informix bought Illustra and Stonebraker was CEO of
Informix.

Pavel

>
> regards, tom lane
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