Re: "Too far out of the mainstream"

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> 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.

Yeah I thought he might have been conflating the two.

> 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.

Possibly, but it hardly makes informix a fork of postgres.