POSTGRES Project Initiation

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

Dr. Michael Stonebraker began the POSTGRES (Post-Ingres) project, aiming to address the limitations of conventional relational databases for complex applications.

Significance

This marked the conceptual birth of PostgreSQL, establishing its foundational object-relational design principles and its commitment to extensibility.

Key facts

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