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I didn't even know PostgreSQL was 20 years old
by cphoover 5y ago
I didn't even know PostgreSQL was 20 years old
- treeman79 5y ago20 years ago I was trying to decide between the two. But sql sounded hard to learn. so I wrote my own database. The joys of being a jr programmer with no oversight.
- NoahKAndrews 5y agoThat's utterly hilarious
- cglace 5y agoWell, How did it go?
- Beltalowda 5y agoIt goes back all the way to the 80s; a brief overview can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL#History
- mulmen 5y agoI'm also a fan of https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/history.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/history.html.
- asah 5y agowell... it's over 25 years... and thanks for making me feel old AF ;-)
- a-dub 5y agoif i recall, it rose to prominence against a backdrop of frustration with myisam not supporting transactions and stored procedures among several other things. early postgres had its own complications though. myisam was limited, but save for dumps it basically ran itself. postgres required tuning and manually run maintenance operations. it was not a drop in replacement for myisam like innodb was...
- oblio 5y ago> Initial release 8 July 1996; > 25 years ago