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From Pavel Stehule
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út 23. 9. 2025 v 6:07 odesílatel Dan Mahoney (Gushi) <postgres@gushi.org> napsal:
Hey there folks,

The manual contains a "Brief History" of postgres and notes that the name
Postgres was retained as an official name after Postgres95 added official
SQL support, and because 95 wouldn't stand the test of time.

It makes mention of the original professor who spearheaded the project
under a DARPA grant, but it would probably do well to know where the name
came from.

If there's somewhere where this should be suggested, let me know.

(Wikipedia has some of this history --
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_(database))

I wrote an article about PostgreSQL history https://postgres.cz/wiki/Historie_projektu_PostgreSQL 

It is in Czech language, but google translator almost works for translation from Czech to English.

There is a list of used literature



-Dan

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