Re: Database Selection - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Database Selection
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Msg-id 444D5631.1000404@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Database Selection  (Shane Ambler <pgsql@007Marketing.com>)
List pgsql-general
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> Bruce Momjiam say's "PostgreSQL's ancestor was Ingres" but I haven't found
> anything concrete one way or the other on whether Postgres started from
> scratch or from Ingres code
> (the name comes from 'post' 'gres' - after Ingres)
>

My understanding is that we started from Ingres in the sense that we are
derived from ideas that are better then Ingres, thus Postgres... I do
not believe we share any code.

Joshua D. Drake

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