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From: kemnitz@eden.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Kemnitz)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Postgres vs. University Ingres
Summary: postgres != ingres
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Date: 16 Mar 91 01:41:06 GMT
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Other than the last four letters of the name, and Dr. Stonebraker, Postgres has
nothing to do with Ingres.

Postgres is an object-oriented data manager, but unlike many, it has a query
language and can be used in something approximating a "normal" database way.
It does not use SQL, but the query language POSTQUEL is simple and
straightforward.

It has user-defined operators and functions, user-defined types, and both
b-tree and r-tree indexed access methods.  It also has a fully featured rule
system, and a straightforward application interface for applications that
run both as networked clients and as functions that are dynamically linked to
the backend.  Get it and try it!

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