POSTGRES Project Initiation

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

Michael Stonebraker, having left the Ingres project, began the POSTGRES project with a vision for a next-generation object-relational database system.

Significance

Marked the foundational beginning of what would eventually become PostgreSQL, setting the stage for its extensible architecture.

Key facts

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