On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Jolly Chen <jo...@chenfamily.com> wrote: > You have probably heard that Mike Stonebraker recently won the Turing award. > A recording of his award lecture is available at: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbGeKi6T6QI > > It is an entertaining talk overall. If you fast forward to about the 1:07 > mark, he makes some comments about postgres. > > Here’s my rough transcription: > > "The abstract data type system in postgres has been added to a lot of > relational database systems. It's kind of de facto table stakes for > relational databases these days, essentially intact. That idea was really a > good one. It was mentioned in the citation for my Turing award winning. > However, serendipity played a huge role, which is, the biggest impact of > postgres by far came from two Berkeley students that I'll affectionately call > Grumpy and Sleepy. They converted the academic postgres prototype from QUEL > to SQL in 1995. This was in parallel to the commercial activity. And then a > pick-up team of volunteers, none of whom have anything to do with me or > Berkeley, have been shepherding that open source system ever since 1995. The > system that you get off the web for postgres comes from this pick-up team. > It is open source at its best and I want to just mention that I have nothing > to do with that and that collection of folks we all owe a huge debt of > gratitude to, because they have robustize that code line and made it so it > really works.” > > Thank you all so much for your hard work over the last twenty years!!
Wow, thanks for reaching out. Here is a quote from the current version of src/test/regress/input/misc.source: -- -- BTREE shutting out non-functional updates -- -- the following two tests seem to take a long time on some -- systems. This non-func update stuff needs to be examined -- more closely. - jolly (2/22/96) -- That comment might be obsolete, but we still have it, and a few other references. :-) -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
