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A Short Story About SQL's Biggest Rival (holistics.io)
5 points by shadowsun7 on Oct 7, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


The end of this isn't quite right. The Postgres project started in 1986. I don't recall what language it used, QUEL perhaps, but it wasn't SQL. SQL support was added between 1994 and 1996, and that's when PostgreSQL was born.




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