Re: History question

> ...
> > Yes, no code went from Ingres to Postgres.
>
> Right. Trying to link Ingres with Postgres is a bit of a stretch. How
> about linking the team and leaving it at that? Postgres was in many ways
> a clean break to try some new ideas, not an evolutionary development
> (witness the first implementation in lisp, which afaik was not part of
> the Ingres code base).

Here is the book text. Is that clearer. In fact, this paragraph was
worked on just to clarify the relationship. Yes, I agree it is a
stretch, but to ignore University Ingres seemed wrong too:

POSTGRESQL'S ancestor was Ingres, developed at the University of
California at Berkeley (1977-1985). The Ingres code was later enhanced
by Relational Technologies/Ingres Corporation, 6.1 which produced one of
the first commercially successful relational database servers. Also at
Berkeley, Michael Stonebraker led a team to develop an
object-relational database server called Postgres (1986-1994). Illustra
6.2 took the Postgres code and developed it into a commercial product.

> Is the book content copyrighted differently from the currently posted
> content? If so, perhaps someone would like to just update the content...

Uh, of course the book is on the web site, but I am unsure about have it
changed because it wouldn't match the book. We can change what is there
now because that doesn't match the book anyway.

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