Acknowledgments

 POSTGRESQL and this book would not be possible without the talented and hard-working members of the POSTGRESQL Global Development Team. They took source code that could have become just another abandoned project and transformed it into the open source alternative to commercial database systems. POSTGRESQL is a shining example of Internet software development.

Steering

• Fournier, Marc G., in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, coordinates the entire effort, provides the server, and administers the primary Web site, mailing lists, ftp site, and source code repository.
• Lane, Tom, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, is often seen working on the planner/optimizer, but has left his fingerprints in many places. He specializes in bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Lockhart, Thomas G., in Pasadena, California, United States, works on documentation, data types (particularly date/time and geometric objects), and SQL standards compatibility.
• Mikheev, Vadim B., in San Francisco, California, United States, does large projects, like vacuum, subselects, triggers, and multi-version concurrency control (MVCC).
• Momjian, Bruce, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, maintains FAQ and TODO lists, code cleanup, patch application, training materials, and some coding.
• Wieck, Jan, near Hamburg, Germany, overhauled the query rewrite rule system, wrote our procedural languages PL/PGSQL and PL/TCL, and added the NUMERIC type.

Major Developers

• Cain, D'Arcy, J. M., in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, worked on the TCL interface, PyGreSQL, and the INET type.
• Dal Zotto, Massimo, near Trento, Italy, created locking code and other improvements.
• Eisentraut, Peter, in Uppsala, Sweden, has added many features, including an overhaul of psql.
• Elphick, Oliver, in Newport, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, maintains the POSTGRESQL package for Debian Linux.
• Horak, Daniel, near Pilzen, Czech Republic, did the WinNT port of POSTGRESQL (using the Cygwin environment).
• Inoue, Hiroshi, in Fukui, Japan, improved btree index access.
• Ishii, Tatsuo, in Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan, handles multibyte foreign language support and porting issues.
• Martin, Dr. Andrew C. R., in London, United Kingdom, created the ECPG interface and helped in the Linux and Irix FAQs including some patches to the POSTGRESQL code.
• Mergl, Edmund, in Stuttgart, Germany, created and maintains pgsql_perl5. He also created DBD-Pg, which is available via CPAN.
• Meskes, Michael, in Dusseldorf, Germany, handles multibyte foreign language support and maintains ECPG.
• Mount, Peter, in Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom, created the Java JDBC interface.
• Nikolaidis, Byron, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, rewrote and maintains the ODBC interface for Windows.
• Owen, Lamar, in Pisgah Forest, North Carolina, United States, maintains the RPM package.
• Teodorescu, Constantin, in Braila, Romania, created the PGACCESS interface.
• Thyni, Göran, in Kiruna, Sweden, has worked on the Unix socket code.

Non-code Contributors

• Bartunov, Oleg, in Moscow, Russia, introduced the locale support.
• Vielhaber, Vince, near Detroit, Michigan, United States, maintains our Web site.

All developers are listed in alphabetical order. 

 

• Steering
• Major Developers
• Non-code Contributors