tomg@mishima.mishima.mn.org (Thomas S. Greenwalt) (03/11/91)
What is Postgres? Is it some sort of spinoff of University Ingres? -- Thomas S. Greenwalt (Tom-Too) (612)866-1344 7300 Nicollet Ave. South tomg@mishima.mishima.mn.org Mpls, MN 55423 -------- Never let morals stand in the way of doing the right thing. --------
kemnitz@eden.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Kemnitz) (03/16/91)
Other than the last four letters of the name, and Dr. Stonebraker, Postgres has nothing to do with Ingres. Postgres is an object-oriented data manager, but unlike many, it has a query language and can be used in something approximating a "normal" database way. It does not use SQL, but the query language POSTQUEL is simple and straightforward. It has user-defined operators and functions, user-defined types, and both b-tree and r-tree indexed access methods. It also has a fully featured rule system, and a straightforward application interface for applications that run both as networked clients and as functions that are dynamically linked to the backend. Get it and try it! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Kemnitz | "I ran out of the room - I Postgres Chief Programmer | didn't want to be killed by a pile 278 Cory Hall, UCB | of VMS manuals" :-) (415) 642-7520 | kemnitz@postgres.berkeley.edu | --A friend at DEC Palo Alto in the Quake