| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Shane Ambler <pgsql(at)007Marketing(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Mailing lists <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Database Selection |
| Date: | 2006-04-24 22:50:25 |
| Message-ID: | 444D5631.1000404@commandprompt.com |
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>
> Bruce Momjiam say's "PostgreSQL's ancestor was Ingres" but I haven't found
> anything concrete one way or the other on whether Postgres started from
> scratch or from Ingres code
> (the name comes from 'post' 'gres' - after Ingres)
>
My understanding is that we started from Ingres in the sense that we are
derived from ideas that are better then Ingres, thus Postgres... I do
not believe we share any code.
Joshua D. Drake
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
>
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