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A Romp Through Database History (w/ Postgres co-creator Mike Stonebraker + Andy Palmer)

The Analytics Engineering Podcast

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Postgres, Date and Time - What's the Problem?

In the early 80s, IBM was working on a database system called Postgres. C wasn't ready to build another database system so they turned it into lists. They transliterated this code back to C and started building Postgres. It became a C project, but we would have loved to do it in C++.

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