Re: History question

> "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at> writes:
> > IIRC Postgres started out with the same [but extended] query language as
> > Ingres.
> > So I think they are not completely unrelated.
> 
> QUEL and POSTQUEL are the two query languages in question, I believe.
> Never having studied either, I have no clue how closely they are
> related.

The languages were almost identical, except for the object creation
extensions.


> In any case, I'm pretty sure that Postgres was a completely new
> implementation that used none of the Ingres code.  The no-overwrite
> storage management scheme was definitely a new concept in Postgres.

None shared.  I have the Ingres code here and it is pretty small. 
Entire source is only 1.7 megs uncompressed.

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