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Contributor Profiles
These are the fine people that make PostgreSQL what it is today!
Core Team
| Contributor | Contribution |
|---|---|
| Josh Berkus (josh at agliodbs.com) PostgreSQL Experts Inc. San Francisco, California, USA |
Provides general direction for PostgreSQL advocacy, works on performance testing, tuning and documentation, and works with user groups. |
| Peter Eisentraut (peter_e at gmx.net) F-Secure Helsinki, Finland |
Works on the build system, porting, documentation, and the internationalization effort, and codes many other improvements. |
| Marc G. Fournier (scrappy at hub.org) Hub.Org Networking Services Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Coordinates the entire effort, helps administer the postgresql.org websites, mailing lists, ftp site, and source code repository. |
| Tom Lane (tgl at sss.pgh.pa.us) Red Hat Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
Involved in all aspects of PostgreSQL, including bug evaluation and fixes, performance improvements, and major new features, such as schemas. He is also responsible for the optimizer. |
| Bruce Momjian (bruce at momjian.us) EnterpriseDB Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Maintains FAQ and TODO lists, codes, applies patches, and does training. |
| Dave Page (dpage at pgadmin.org) EnterpriseDB Oxfordshire, United Kingdom |
Created and maintains pgAdmin, helps manage the postgresql.org websites and project infrastructure, and maintains the PostgreSQL installers. |
| Jan Wieck (JanWieck at Yahoo.com) Afilias USA INC. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Overhauled the query rewrite rule system, wrote our procedural languages PL/pgSQL and PL/Tcl, and added the NUMERIC data type. |
Major Contributors
| Contributor | Contribution |
|---|---|
| Oleg Bartunov (oleg at sai.msu.su) SAI-MSU Moscow, Russia |
Introduced the locale support and is improving GIST. Has contributed full text search support in PostgreSQL, fuzzy search, support for tree-like structures and other GiST based modules. |
| Dave Cramer (Dave at micro-automation.net) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Helps maintain the JDBC driver and works on PL/J. |
| Selena Deckelmann (selenamarie at gmail.com) End Point Corporation Portland, Oregon |
PostgreSQL User Group liason/coordinator, works on advocacy, the Bucardo replication engine and more. |
| Joshua Drake (jd at commandprompt.com) Command Prompt, Inc USA |
Helps manage and maintain parts of the project's infrastructure and website, one of the primary organizers of the East and West US conferences, director of PGUS, and contributor to project's advocacy efforts. |
| Andrew Dunstan (andrew at dunslane.net) Apex (near Raleigh), North Carolina, USA |
Has contributed in a number of areas, including configuration and logging enhancements, dollar quoting, CSV import/export, upgraded plperlng, the Win32 port, rewriting the initdb and pg_ctl scripts in C, a double metaphone function in contrib, and maintains the buildfarm project. |
| David Fetter (david at fetter.org) PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. Oakland, California, United States |
Works on pgFoundry, DBI-link, and the PostgreSQL Weekly News |
| Francisco Figueiredo (fxjrlists at yahoo.com.br) |
Project founder and lead developer of Npgsql, PostgreSQL's .NET data provider. |
| Devrim Gündüz (devrim at commandprompt.com) Command Prompt, Inc. Istanbul, Türkiye |
Coordinates RPM maintainance, helps website maintainance, builds PostgreSQL related packages for Fedora, maintains RPM repository for Fedora/RHEL/CentOS, maintains Fedora and CentOS based Live CD's, and leads our advocacy efforts in Turkey. |
| Magnus Hagander (magnus at hagander.net) Redpill Stockholm, Sweden |
Has done major work on the Win32 port, wrote much of the Win32 Installer, and helps maintain the PostgreSQL websites and project infrastructure. |
| Álvaro Herrera (alvherre at commandprompt.com) Command Prompt, Inc. Valdivia, Chile |
Fixed CLUSTER, worked on savepoints, added shared row locking, added shared dependency tracking, integrated autovacuum into the backend, and other minutia. |
| Hiroshi Inoue (noue at tpf.co.jp) Fukui, Japan |
Improved btree index access, worked on ODBC driver, helps with scaleability and code testing. |
| Tatsuo Ishii (t-ishii at sra.co.jp) Software Research Associates Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan |
Handles multi-byte foreign language support and porting issues. |
| Stefan Kaltenbrunner (stefan at kaltenbrunner.cc) conova communications GmbH Grödig, Austria |
Helps manage the project's online infrastructure and maintain the websites. |
| Marko Kreen (markokr at gmail.com) Skype |
In addition to contributions to PostgreSQL itself, leads the development of Skype's Skytools for PostgreSQL |
| Heikki Linnakangas (heikki at enterprisedb.com) EnterpriseDB Helsinki, Finland |
Developed PostgreSQL's 2 phase commit support. |
| Michael Meskes (meskes at postgresql.org) Credativ Düsseldorf, Germany |
Maintains ecpg. |
| Simon Riggs (simon at 2ndquadrant.com) 2ndQuadrant Oxfordshire, United Kingdom |
Point in Time Recovery, Table Partitioning, focuses on enterprise issues, performance and scalability, replication and high availability. |
| Greg Sabino Mullane (greg at turnstep.com) End Point Corporation Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Maintains DBD::Pg, Bucardo, check_postgres.pl, works on psql, helps maintain the website and mailing lists, and works on advocacy issues. |
| Hiroshi Saito (z-saito at guitar.ocn.ne.jp) Japan PostgreSQL User Group (JPUG) Tokyo, Japan |
Works on pgAdmin, ODBC, Npgsql, pgsnmpd, Win32 builds and more. |
| Teodor Sigaev (teodor at sigaev.ru) Delta-Soft LLC Moscow, Russia |
Works on GIST and other indexes, full-text search, support for tree-like structures and other GiST based modules. |
| Greg Stark (stark at mit.edu) Dublin, Ireland |
Author of concurrent index builds and var-varlena. |
| Pavel Stehule (pavel.stehule at gmail.com) |
Has contributed numerous enhancements to PL/pgSQL |
| ITAGAKI Takahiro (itagaki.takahiro at oss.ntt.co.jp) NTT Tokyo, Japan |
Has worked on countless patches for PostgreSQL, both fixing bugs and writing new features, including WHEN clauses for triggers, a buffer usage feature for EXPLAIN and a new implementation of VACUUM FULL. |
| Robert Treat (xzilla at users.sourceforge.net) OmniTI Ellicott City, Maryland, USA |
Helps manage the postgresql.org websites, maintains the phpPgAdmin project, works on a number of advocacy related items |
| Martijn van Oosterhout (kleptog at svana.org) Delft, Netherlands |
Worked on a number of features including libpq, psql, shared objects and libraries, shell types and warnings for improper config options. |
Contributors
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| Gevik Babakhani (pgdev at xs4all.nl) | Dennis Björklund (d at zigo.dhs.org) |
| Christopher Browne (cbbrowne at ca.afilias.info) | D'Arcy Cain (darcy at druid.net) |
| Andrew Chernow (andrew at esilo.com) | Fabien Coelho (coelho at cri.ensmp.fr) |
| Joe Conway (mail at joeconway.com) | Neil Conway (neilc at samurai.com) |
| Jeff Davis (pgsql at j-davis.com) | Pavan Deolasee (pavan.deolasee at enterprisedb.com) |
| Korry Douglas (korryd at enterprisedb.com) | Dimitri Fontaine (dfontaine at hi-media.com) |
| Stephen Frost (sfrost at snowman.net) | Michael Fuhr (mike at fuhr.org) |
| Andrew Gierth (andrew at tao11.riddles.org.uk) | Michael Glaesemann (grzm at myrealbox.com) |
| Robert Haas (robertmhaas at gmail.com) | Jonah Harris (jonah.harris at gmail.com) |
| Bernd Helmle (mailings at oopsware.de) | Brendan Jurd (direvus at gmail.com) |
| Kris Jurka (jurka at ejurka.com) | Mark Kirkwood (markir at paradise.net.nz) |
| Manfred Koizar (mkoi-pg at aon.at) | Sergey E. Koposov (math at sai.msu.ru) |
| Zdenek Kotala (zdenek.kotala at sun.com) | Hannu Krosing (hannu at skype.net) |
| Robert Lor (Robert.Lor at Sun.com) | Abhijit Menon-Sen (ams at oryx.com) |
| Euler Taveira de Oliveira (euler at timbira.com) | Andreas Pflug (pgadmin at pse-consulting.de) |
| Jignesh Shah (j.k.shah at sun.com) | Gavin Sherry (gavin at alcove.com.au) |
| Greg Smith (greg at 2ndquadrant.com) | Stephan Szabo (sszabo at megazone23.bigpanda.com) |
| Rod Taylor (pg at rbt.ca) | David Wheeler (david at kineticode.com) |
| Joachim Wieland (joe at mcknight.de) | Mark Wong (markw at osdl.org) |
| Andreas Zeugswetter (ZeugswetterA at wien.spardat.at) |
Hackers Emeritus
The following hackers were previously part of the core team. Although they no longer work on the project, they are included here in recognition of their valuable contributions over the years.
| Contributor | Contribution |
|---|---|
| Thomas G. Lockhart (lockhart at alumni.caltech.edu) Jet Propulsion Labratory Pasadena, California, USA |
Worked on documentation, data types (particularly date/time and geometric), and SQL standards compliance. |
| Vadim B. Mikheev (vadim4o at yahoo.com) San Francisco, California, USA |
Undertook large projects, like vacuum, subselects, triggers, Write Ahead Log (WAL) and multi-version concurrency control (MVCC). |
Past Contributors
| Julian Assange (proff at suburbia.net) | David Bennett (dave at bensoft.com) |
| Alexey Borzov (borz_off at cs.msu.su) | Emily Boyd (emily at emilyboyd.com) |
| Sean Chittenden (sean at chittenden.org) | Justin Clift (justin at postgresql.org) |
| Massimo Dal Zotto (dz at cs.unitn.it) | Dr_George_D Detlefsen (drgeorge at ilt.com) |
| Chris Dunlop (chris at onthe.net.au) | J. Douglas Dunlop (dunlop at eol.ists.ca) |
| Oliver Elphick (olly at lfix.co.uk) | Brian E. Gallew (geek+ at cmu.edu) |
| Cees de Groot (C.deGroot at inter.NL.net) | Thomas Hallgren (thomas at tada.se) |
| John Hansen (john at geeknet.com.au) | Christopher Kings-Lynne (chris.kingslynne at gmail.com) |
| Anoop Kumar (anoopk at pervasive-postgres.com) | Randy Kunkee (kunkee at Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) |
| Kurt J. Lidl (lidl at va.pubnix.com) | Barry Lind (barry at xythos.com) |
| Dan McGuirk (mcguirk at indirect.com) | Roberto Mello (roberto.mello at gmail.com) |
| Ernst Molitor (ernst.molitor at uni-bonn.de) | Fernando Nasser (fnasser at redhat.com) |
| Claudio Natoli (claudio.natoli at memetrics.com) | Matthew T. O'Connor (matthew at zeut.net) |
| Lamar Owen (lamar.owen at wgcr.org) | Ross J. Reedstrom (reedstrm at rice.edu) |
| Thomas van Reimersdahl (reimersd at dali.techinfo.rwth-aachen.de) | Larry Rosenman (ler at lerctr.org) |
| Sergej Sergeev (sergej at commandprompt.com) | Michael Siebenborn (michael.siebenborn at ae3.Hypo.DE) |
| Erich Stamberger (eberger at gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at) | Adam Sussman (myddryn at vidya.com) |
| Sven Suursoho (sven at spam.pri.ee) | Reini Urban (urban at x-ray.at) |
| Paul "Shag" Walmsley (ccshag at cclabs.missouri.edu) | Philip Warner (pjw at rhyme.com.au) |
| Rick Weldon (rick at wisetech.com) | Jason Wright (jason at shiloh.vnet.net) |
| Karel Zak (kzak at redhat.com) | Qingqing Zhou (zhouqq at cs.toronto.edu) |
All contributors are listed in alphabetical order. Please report omissions or corrections to the webmaster.