Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Chris Travers <chris.travers@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
