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40 Years of Postgres

Two developers review code and passing tests beside a POSTGRES cylinder wired to three extension tiles; an open doorway with a posted PostgreSQL License notice leads to Postgres powering a web app, a cloud service, and a dashboard; four contributors at separate laptops connect to one shared Postgres repository under the caption Owned by no one, belongs to everyone.

Why Postgres spreads

Trust is earned in public: every patch is reviewed on pgsql-hackers, run through CommitFests (since 2008) and regression tests. The PostgreSQL License lets anyone use, change and sell it. Governance is thin by design: a small core team, about thirty committers and a non-profit holding the trademarks. No company owns it.

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