Re: Packages, inner subprograms, and parameterizable anonymous blocks for PL/pgSQL

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 6:39 PM Mladen Gogala <gogala(dot)mladen(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I am very well aware of the animosity toward the Oracle community and
> the reasons for that animosity. Oracle wiped the floor with the
> predecessor of Postgres, the database called "Ingres". Sandra Kurtzig,
> the Ingres CEO at the the time, and Michael Stonebraker were both
> involved in very public spat with Larry Ellison.

These events happened several years before I was born.

> Stonebraker is still
> very much a factor in Postgres community and I doubt that his feelings
> toward the Larry and his company have got any warmer with years.

No, he isn't. I think that Stonebraker appeared at a few events that
were hosted by EDB, but to the best of my knowledge that's the extent
of his involvement in the project after university POSTGRES. I've
personally never met the man, or communicated with him online, and
I've worked on Postgres more or less full time for a full decade now.
As far as I'm aware he hasn't ever publicly posting to any of the
mailing lists.

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Peter Geoghegan