POSTGRES Project Commencement

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

Professor Michael Stonebraker, having left the Ingres project, initiates the POSTGRES research project to explore 'post-relational' database concepts.

Significance

This marked the conceptual birth of PostgreSQL, driven by the ambition to overcome the limitations of traditional relational databases in handling complex data types and extensibility.

Key facts

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