THE POSTGRES NEXT GENERATION DBMS
Michael R Stonebraker, Greg Kemnitz · 1997
The purpose of the POSTGRES project was to build a next generation DBMS to rectify the known deficiencies in current relational DBMSs. This system, constructed over a four year period by one full time programmer and 3-4 part time students is operational and consists of about 180,000 lines of C. POSTGRES is available free of charge and is being used by perhaps 125 sites around the world. This paper describes the major concepts of the system and details its current state. We restrict our attention to the DBMS ‘‘backend’’ functions, and make only passing mention of the front end tools available for POSTGRES.