Re: Database Selection

>
> 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

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