POSTGRES Project Initiation

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

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

Significance

This marked the conceptual birth of PostgreSQL, laying the foundation for its innovative object-relational features and extensibility.

Key facts

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