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CHAPTER 24 Introducing PostgreSQL In 1986, University of California at Berkeley professor and noted database technology expert Michael Stonebraker set out to build a better database system. Despite having already enjoyed a great deal of success with his previous database project, INGRES, Stonebraker decided that the code in INGRES had become sufficiently cumbersome that, rather than attempt to implement his new vision in the INGRES project, he should build a new system from the ground up, the result of which was what he dubbed POSTGRES. Over the next eight years, POSTGRES grew in popularity, particularly among the research community. Eventually this popularity became overwhelming, taking time away from the POSTGRES researchers, who should have been doing further database research. Thus, the POSTGRES project was officially ended at version 4.2. However, thanks to its release under the BSD license, this was not the end of the database project. Development was picked up by a handful of folks on the Internet, and in 1994, Andrew Yu and Jolly Chen added a SQL parser (replacing the previous QUEL language system) and subsequently released it as Postgres95. By 1996, it became obvious that the name Postgres95 didn t exactly imply a futuristic vision, so the database was released as PostgreSQL 6.0 by the developer community. The name PostgreSQL paid homage to the original POSTGRES project while also reflecting the new SQL capabilities that had been implemented, and the version number was set in line with the original POSTGRES project version line. Today PostgreSQL is one of the most popular open-source projects on the Internet. Like many of the projects that have come out of Berkeley (BIND, BSD Unix, sendmail, and Tcl rank among its contributions), PostgreSQL powers countless applications, Web sites, and even parts of the Internet backbone itself. In fact, some of the biggest and most popular organizations in the world use PostgreSQL on a regular basis, including the likes of Afilias Ltd. (the .info registrar), Apple Computers, BASF, Cisco Systems, and The World Health Organization (WHO). Even more important is the number of companies that provide project development and support resources, including the likes of Fujitsu, Pervasive Software Inc., Red Hat Inc., and SRA International Inc. It is worth noting that, while all of these companies are involved in PostgreSQL, none of them has any ownership of the code or control the direction of PostgreSQL development. All of that is run by volunteers within the community, and the developers collectively control what is added into the core system. Given this community-first approach to the project, what do all of these companies see in PostgreSQL? And more importantly, why should PostgreSQL be at the top of your list when you start a new database-backed project?
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