> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>
> > ...
> > > 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).
> >
> > Is the book content copyrighted differently from the currently posted
> > content? If so, perhaps someone would like to just update the content...
>
> Either way it's Bruce's text (both book and stuff on the website) so
> I'll let you guys figure that out. BTW, there's a reference that
> Daemon News also has a copy of that in their archives. Anyway I'm
> in class the rest of the day so whatever gets decided I'll get it
> tomorrow.
OK, I have updated the PostgreSQL history article to match my book,
which mentions Ingres as the "ancestor" of PostgreSQL, developed at
Berkeley too.
Thanks.
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