POSTGRES Project Begins

Name: POSTGRES Project Begins
Start: 1986-01-01
Location: University of California, Berkeley, USA

Michael Stonebraker, having completed work on Ingres, initiated the POSTGRES project to explore a 'post-relational' database system with object-oriented features.

Significance

This marked the theoretical and architectural genesis of what would become PostgreSQL, laying the foundation for its object-relational model.

Key facts

Date: 1986-01-01
Type: invention
Location: University of California, Berkeley, USA