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The History of PostgreSQL

Open-Source Development

BRUCE MOMJIAN, GREAT BRIDGE LLC

October 23, 2000

Abstract
POSTGRESQL is successful only because of its vibrant open-source
development community. This presentation chronicles the building of
that community.

PostgreSQL History
PostgreSQL Through the Years

1977-1985 Ingres

1986-1994 Postgres

1994-1995 Postgres95

1996- PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL History 1
The University of California
at Berkeley

PostgreSQL History 2
PostgreSQL Code Base History

✦ Ingres — research prototype, spawned Relational Technologies, purchased by


Computer Associates

✦ Postgres — research prototype, spawned Illustra, purchased by Informix

✦ Postgres95 — added SQL, spawned PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL History 3
Postgres Postgres95

Michael Stonebraker Jolly Chen and Andrew Yu

PostgreSQL History 4
Transition from Single Maintainer
To Internet Development

✦ Getting approval

✦ Scouring the mailing list

✦ Todo list

✦ Faq

✦ How does this thing work?

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PostgreSQL Core Team

Top row: Thomas Lockhart, Jan Wieck, Tom Lane, Marc Fournier
Bottom row: Vadim Mikheev, Bruce Momjian

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Assisting Our Developers

✦ Developer Education
✧ Developer’s Faq
✧ Source code flowchart
✧ Emphasize code clarity and people will respond

✦ Developer Recruitment

✦ Cvsup, remote Cvs

✦ Managing an increasing installed base

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Internals Flowchart

Main

Libpq

Postmaster

Postgres Postgres

Parser

utility Utility
Traffic Cop
Commands
complex
Rewrite &
Generate Paths

Choose Path &


Generate Plan

Executor

Utilities Catalog Storage Managers

Access Methods Nodes / Lists

Bootstrap

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Internals Flowchart (magnified)

Parser

utility Utility
Traffic Cop
Commands
complex
Rewrite &
Generate Paths

Choose Path &


Generate Plan

Executor

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Keeping the Code Clean

✦ automatic formatting

✦ remove unused functions

✦ mark single-file functions as static

✦ rename variables and functions

✦ require patches to be of acceptable quality

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Developer’s Globe

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Daily Chores

✦ Mailing list
✧ Answer simple questions
✧ Identify valid bug reports
✧ Work with users to test bug fixes
✧ Collect feature requests
✧ Encourage technical discussions

✦ Patch application

✦ Encourage

✦ Marketing

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Packaging a Release

✦ Collect unapplied patches

✦ Resolve outstanding issues

✦ Regression testing

✦ Enter beta

✦ Resolve all bug reports

✦ Final release

✦ Collect and apply safe patches

✦ Issue subreleases
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Release Dates and Sizes

Date Release Lines of code


1994 244,581
1996-08-01 1.02.1
1996-10-27 1.09 178,976
1997-01-29 6.0
1997-06-08 6.1 200,709
1997-10-02 6.2 225,848
1998-03-01 6.3 260,809
1998-10-30 6.4 297,918
1999-06-09 6.5 331,278
2000-05-08 7.0 383,270
2000-? 7.1 407,203

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Development Directions

✦ Features

✦ Performance

✦ Reliability

✦ Code simplicity

✦ Standards conformance

✦ Documentation

✦ Pace of releases

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Conclusion

Top row: Thomas Lockhart, Jolly Chen, Vadim Mikheev


Jan Wieck, Andrew Yu, Tom Lane
Bottom row: Bruce Momjian, Marc Fournier
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