History PostgreSQL evolved from the Ingres project at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1982, the leader of the Ingres team, Michael Stonebraker, left Berkeley to make a proprietary version of Ingres. He returned to Berkeley in 1985, and began a post-Ingres project to address the problems with contemporary database systems that had become increasingly clear during the early 1980s. He won the Turing Award in 2014 for these and other projects, and techniques pioneered in them.
History PostgreSQL evolved from the Ingres project at the University of California Berkeley In 1982 the leader of the Ingres team Michael Stonebraker left Berkeley to make a proprietary version of Ingres He returned to Berkeley in 1985 and began a post-Ingres project to address the problems with contemporary database systems that had become increasingly clear during the early 1980s He won the Turing Award in 2014 for these and other projects and techniques pioneered in them