An overview of PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL (http://www.PostgreSQL.org/) has many useful 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 was started as a project at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB), then it was developed by the community in 1996.

So far, PostgreSQL is actively developed by the PostgreSQL community as well as universities. The following time frames show the history of PostgreSQL's development:

• 1977-1985, the Ingres project: Michael Stonebraker created a relational database management system (RDBMS) based on the formal relational model.
• 1986-1994...