An overview of PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL (http://www.PostgreSQL.org/) has many rich features. It provides enterprise-level services including performance, unique features, and scalability. It has a very supportive community and very good documentation.

PostgreSQL history

PostgreSQL has started as a research project in the University of California at Berkeley (UCB), then it has been developed by the community in 1996, up till now PostgreSQL is actively developed by the PostgreSQL community as well as universities. The following time frames shows the history of PostgreSQL development:

• 1977-1985, the Ingres project: Michael Stonebraker created an RDBMS based on the formal relational model
• 1986-1994, postgres: Michael Stonebraker...