POSTGRES Project Initiation

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

Dr. Michael Stonebraker, after his work on Ingres, initiated the POSTGRES project to research the next generation of database systems, focusing on object-relational capabilities.

Significance

This marked the theoretical and architectural genesis of PostgreSQL, laying the academic groundwork for its innovative features.

Key facts

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