The Place of Postgres in History

EDB Technical Fellow Marc Linster sits down with EDB Vice President & Postgres Evangelist Bruce Momjian to talk about the place of Postgres in history.
Read the blog here: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/pla...
Topics include:
- When and where did Postgres start, and why that name?
- When did it become open source?
- Were you involved with Postgres from that moment on? Are any of the original team still working on Postgres?
- Why did the Postgres project even start, when we had databases like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Informix, MS Access? Was there a need?
- I imagine that Postgres had no resources on Day 1, and probably for the first many years. How did you and the team manage?
- How do you explain that Postgres turned out so well, without the usual trappings of the software process. No product management, no marketing, no sales engineers, … How could that even work?
- Today Postgres has a reputation as being the most innovative database - was there a technical reason for that?
- Developers seem to love Postgres. Why?
- How could Postgres persevere, and even win, in an age of NoSQL and document databases? They were all the rage for a while.
- Today Microsoft, VMWare, Google, Amazon, NTT, Fujitsu and many others are contributing to Postgres, but competing in the marketplace. How does that work?
- Postgres has no HQ and no ‘Home Country’ -- how does this global process work?

[@rembautimes8808]

Thanks Marc and Bruce for this great talk. I’m a developer in Malaysia 🇲🇾 and love ❤️ this database. I wanted to find out more about its history after PG executed a large query in less than a blink of an eye and peeking under the hood thru EXPLAIN ANALYZE and see all wonderful engineering that went behind this database. JSONB support is so awesome because front end developers can pass complex query requirements and PG can handle the heavy lifting.