POSTGRES Project Initiation

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

Michael Stonebraker launched the POSTGRES project, aiming to overcome the limitations of traditional relational databases by introducing object-relational features and extensibility.

Significance

This marked the formal beginning of PostgreSQL's conceptual ancestor, laying the theoretical and architectural groundwork for a highly advanced and flexible database system.

Key facts

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