Scott Marlowe <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Chris Travers <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 1) While MySQL is perhaps better marketed, PostgreSQL is an older project
>> with a proud heritage (Informix started as a Postgres fork), and top-rate
> Pretty sure that's not true. Ingres is a cousin of Postgres started
> by the same guy, Stonebraker, but it's not a fork either.
He didn't say Ingres.
Illustra was a commercial fork of Postgres (the pre-SQL versions, I
think). It was later bought out by Informix. I don't have any info
on how much of that code base survives in the modern (IBM-owned)
version of Informix - but one could assume there's at least some.
regards, tom lane
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