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40 Years of Postgres

A quiet Berkeley lab with a glowing POSTGRES screen; two graduate students, Jolly Chen and Andrew Yu, add SQL at a terminal in 1994; the elephant steps through an open door toward networked computers carrying the Postgres95 package in 1995.

Postgres95: SQL arrives

When Berkeley's project wound down, graduate students Andrew Yu and Jolly Chen replaced the PostQUEL query language with SQL in 1994. Postgres95 was released on the web in 1995 and left to find its own way: the code's second life, outside the institution that created it.

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