NOTES: - Do not post this outside of the PostgreSQL's mailing lists
without Marc Fournier's permission.
- This needs to be spell checked again.
- I would like to thank Thomas Lockhart and De Clarke for
their detailed editing. I think this version of the
press release is significantly better than the first draft.
David
TORONTO, Ontario. (June 8, 1997) -- The PostgreSQL Development Team
is pleased to announce the release of PostgreSQL version 6.1.
PostgreSQL is an Object-Relational DataBase Management System
(ORDBMS). This client/server database software is available at no
charge.
In 1986 the University of California started the Postgres project to
explore objected-oriented concepts in relational databases. When the
university terminated the project they released the software to the
Internet community. The PostgreSQL (formerly Postgres95) team of
volunteers have continued the development effort. The result is an
RDBMS that is starting to compete seriously with the major (and
expensive) commercial systems.
PostgreSQL has been popular for several years among the scientific
community. When version 6.0 came out its increased reliability and
increased support of ANSI/ISO SQL92 commands attracted attention in
the business community. This latest release makes major improvements
in execution speed, reliability and platform support.
While PostgreSQL is not yet fully ANSI-compliant it supports several
features not found in ANSI SQL such as inheritance. It supports
declarative queries in SQL, query optimization, concurrency control,
transactions, multi-user support and a number of security features.
It supports user defined operators, types, functions and access
methods. Application programmer interfaces (APIs) exist for C, C++,
Java, Perl4, Perl5, Python, SQL and Tcl. ODBC and JDBC drivers are
available from commercial sources and free versions are under
development. The software works on at least 15 different Unix
platforms.
If you wish to run a database server on a UNIX platform you should
give PostgreSQL serious consideration. A feature list, the software
and additional information may be found on the world wide web at
http://www.postgresql.org/.
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