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History of PostgreSQL

- Spawned from work on Ingres at Berkeley (1977 - 1985) (Michael Stonebraker & Eugene Wong)

- Transformed into an ORDBMS: Post-Ingres (1986 - 1992)
- SQL support added: project now called Postgres95 (Jolly Chen & Andrew Yu)

- 1996: Appeal to open source community for help
- Several new developers inducted into core

- Focus: clean & re-structure code, fix bugs, catch up on patches
- Increased reliability attracts new users & development
- Project renamed PostgreSQL, development run by `PostgreSQL Global Development Group'
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