Re: History question

> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>
> > > While surfing through our web page I found some references about Postgres
> > > (the original Berkley project) starting as Ingres. Now I wonder whether we
> > > or let's say the original Postgres project still used Ingres or parts
> > > thereof.
> >
> > It doesn't, and never did. Not sure how that impression got started,
> > other than some confusion over "based on" vs "successor".
> >
> > Where exactly did you find this on the web site? We should rephrase
> > it...
>
> The history paper (the formatting was messed up with the copy/paste):

Yes, no code went from Ingres to Postgres. However, Stonebraker was the
same, and the team was probably similar. The text in the first
chapter of my book is a little clearer, calling Ingres an ancestor of
Postgres. There is a link between them, it is just hard to clearly
specify it without going into all sorts of contortions in the text. I
wonder if we should remove the old history article and put the first
chapter of my book in there instead. It is the same content, but
updated.

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