Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: Re: First Major Open Source Database]

> It did not use any Ingres code, as told to me by Jolly, I think.  My
> book has Ingres mentioned as an "ancestor" of Postgres.

I suppose we could have figured this out ourselves, since Postgres was
originally written in Lisp, and afaik Ingres was always C or somesuch
traditional compiled-only code. We still see evidence of this in our
code tree with the way lists and parser nodes are handled.
                 - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart                lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California