On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Yeah I thought he might have been conflating the two. > 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. Possibly, but it hardly makes informix a fork of postgres. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
