Jonathan Stowe wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 May 2001, Paul Sharpe wrote:
> >
> > Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> > >
> > > James Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Ooh that would have been very useful for me at one time.
> > >
> > > I've got bells ringing in my head about how hard it was to get a C
> > > library out of them in the early days.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > "Illustra - Nice ideas, shame about the locking approach
> > > > (and lack of outer joins, etc etc)!"
> > >
> > > Ah, but "Blades" and time series stuff.
> >
> > Doesn't PostgreSQL carry on the Illustra tradition?
> >
>
> It went to Informix most recently and then of course to IBM.
>
> /J\
But didn't it come *from* Postgres?
paul
