These are the fine people that make PostgreSQL what it is today!

Steering

  • Marc G. Fournier in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, (scrappy@hub.org, PostgreSQL, Inc.) coordinates the entire effort, provides the server, and administers the primary Web site, mailing lists, ftp site, and source code repository.
  • Tom Lane in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, Red Hat) is involved in all aspects of PostgreSQL, including bug evaluation and fixes, performance improvements, and major new features, like schemas. He is also responsible for the optimizer.
  • Vadim B. Mikheev in San Fransisco, California, USA, (vadim4o@yahoo.com, Sector Data) does large projects, like vacuum, subselects, triggers, Write Ahead Log (WAL) and multi-version concurrency control (MVCC).
  • Bruce Momjian in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us, Software Research Associates) maintains FAQ and TODO lists, codes, applies patches, and does training.
  • Jan Wieck in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, (JanWieck@Yahoo.com , PeerDirect) overhauled the query rewrite rule system, wrote our procedural languages PL/pgSQL and PL/Tcl, and added the NUMERIC data type.

Major Developers

  • Oleg Bartunov in Moscow, Russia, (oleg@sai.msu.su) introduced the locale support and is improving GIST.
  • D'Arcy J. M. Cain in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, (darcy@druid.net) worked on the TCL interface, PyGreSQL, and the INET data type.
  • Justin Clift in Melbourne, Australia, (justin@postgresql.org) created and maintains the Technical Documentation and Advocacy web sites.
  • Joe Conway in San Diego, California, USA, (mail@joeconway.com ) has added functions returning table sets, /contrib/dblink, and other nifty features.
  • Neil Conway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, (neilc@samurai.com) has completed many important TODO items.
  • Dave Cramer in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ( Dave@micro-automation.net) maintains the jdbc driver with Barry Lind.
  • Peter Eisentraut in Dresden, Germany, (peter_e@gmx.net) is heavily involved in improving the build system and documentation, as well as many port-specific and privilege improvements. He also overhauled psql.
  • Oliver Elphick in Newport, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, (olly@lfix.co.uk) maintains the PostgreSQL package for Debian Linux.
  • Hiroshi Inoue in Fukui, Japan, (Inoue@tpf.co.jp) improved btree index access and maintains the ODBC driver.
  • Tatsuo Ishii in Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan, (t-ishii@sra.co.jp, Software Research Associates) handles multi-byte foreign language support and porting issues.
  • Christopher Kings-Lynne in ??, ( chriskl@familyhealth.com.au) has made major improvements to the ALTER TABLE command.
  • Barry Lind in ??, ( barry@xythos.com) maintains the jdbc driver with Dave Cramer.
  • Thomas G. Lockhart in Pasadena, California, USA, (lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu, Jet Propulsion Labratory) works on documentation, data types (particularly date/time and geometric), and SQL standards compliance.
  • Michael Meskes in Düsseldorf, Germany, (meskes@postgresql.org) handles multi-byte foreign language support, and maintains ecpg.
  • Lamar Owen in Pisgah Forest, North Carolina, USA, (lamar.owen@wgcr.org) maintains the RPM package.
  • Dave Page in ??, ( dpage@vale-housing.co.uk) created and maintains the pgadmin application.
  • Stephan Szabo in San Francisco, CA, USA, ( sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com) has contributed most of the foreign key code and actively maintains it.
  • Rod Taylor in ??, (rbt@zort.ca) has added dependency tracking, DOMAIN support, and other TODO items.
  • Vince Vielhaber in Oxford, Michigan, USA, (vev@michvhf.com) maintains our Web site.
  • Karel Zak in the Czech Republic, (zakkr@zf.jcu.cz) has added Oracle compatibility functions and performance improvements.

Other Contributors

All developers are listed in alphabetical order. Please report omissions or corrections to the webmaster.

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