Nice to hear you again Jolly ! On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:42 AM, Jolly Chen <jo...@chenfamily.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone, > > 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!! > > Affectionately, > > Grumpy > > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers >
