Thread: postgresql history - article
Hello year ago I wrote a article about PostgreSQL history. Now I am sending a link - translated by Google from Czech. I hope, so informations from this article can be useful although it is translated automatically. http://translate.google.cz/translate?sl=cs&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=cs&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpostgres.cz%2Fwiki%2FHistorie_projektu_PostgreSQL Regards Pavel
2013/5/15 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>: > Hello > > year ago I wrote a article about PostgreSQL history. > > Now I am sending a link - translated by Google from Czech. I hope, so > informations from this article can be useful although it is translated > automatically. > > http://translate.google.cz/translate?sl=cs&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=cs&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpostgres.cz%2Fwiki%2FHistorie_projektu_PostgreSQL sorry better link http://translate.google.cz/translate?hl=cs&sl=cs&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpostgres.cz%2Fwiki%2FHistorie_projektu_PostgreSQL possibly to use google translator manually - original text http://postgres.cz/wiki/Historie_projektu_PostgreSQL > > Regards > > Pavel
Pavel, I think the article is too wide. PostgreSQL history described very little, so I thought at first it was wrote not by old member of our community :) For example, I think that my first patch for postgres, which introduced locale support was important for european users, Vadim Mikheev work on MVCC was very important (remove time-travel for mvcc), nothing was written about our (me and Teodor) work on extendability of postgres (GiST, GIN, SP-GiST), full-text search. I think every developer could write a brief list of his contribution (important). Then we could obtain a big list, ordered by date with links to hackers. This list could be commented by several sentences, so we'll eventually have real PG history. Moreover, we could store it in one table and have online version. Oleg On Wed, 15 May 2013, Pavel Stehule wrote: > Hello > > year ago I wrote a article about PostgreSQL history. > > Now I am sending a link - translated by Google from Czech. I hope, so > informations from this article can be useful although it is translated > automatically. > > http://translate.google.cz/translate?sl=cs&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=cs&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpostgres.cz%2Fwiki%2FHistorie_projektu_PostgreSQL > > Regards > > Pavel > > > Regards, Oleg _____________________________________________________________ Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru), Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83
Hi Oleg 2013/5/15 Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>: > Pavel, > > I think the article is too wide. PostgreSQL history described very little, > so I thought > at first it was wrote not by old member of our community :) For example, I > think > that my first patch for postgres, which introduced locale support was > important for european users, Vadim Mikheev work on MVCC was very important > (remove time-travel > for mvcc), nothing was written about our (me and Teodor) work on > extendability of postgres (GiST, GIN, SP-GiST), full-text search. I think > every developer could write a brief list of his contribution (important). > Then we could obtain a big list, ordered by date with links to hackers. This > list could be commented by several sentences, so > we'll eventually have real PG history. Moreover, we could store it in one > table and > have online version. > > Oleg > sure, I am not old member :-) I started at 2004. This article is not fully complete - I didn't find good materials about community postgresql history - there is only mailing list and release notes, nothing more. At time when I wrote this article, I was fascinated older history - about academic Postgres and Ingres - and this time is perfectly described by Stonebraker in lot of documents. So it is clean, so strong part of this document is about this era. I am thinking so there is relatively enough knowledges about community - it is not too long history, but older times are little bit hidden - probably nobody in Czech Republic has good information about Ingres history and about relations between PostgreSQL and Informix - so It was my primary target. I invite, with pleasure, any notices, infos from any PostgreSQL veterans :) Regards Pavel > On Wed, 15 May 2013, Pavel Stehule wrote: > >> Hello >> >> year ago I wrote a article about PostgreSQL history. >> >> Now I am sending a link - translated by Google from Czech. I hope, so >> informations from this article can be useful although it is translated >> automatically. >> >> >> http://translate.google.cz/translate?sl=cs&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=cs&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpostgres.cz%2Fwiki%2FHistorie_projektu_PostgreSQL >> >> Regards >> >> Pavel >> >> >> > > Regards, > Oleg > _____________________________________________________________ > Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru), > Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia > Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ > phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83