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Stonebraker and Rowe: the design of POSTGRES

Contribution grade

Databases and information retrieval · ALGORITHM

Reference score130,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Presented preliminary POSTGRES design with complex objects, extensibility, rules, and history.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact two-author 1986 SIGMOD paper. It does not absorb later POSTGRES releases, PostgreSQL community development, all object-relational databases or implementation claims added after the paper.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author 1986 SIGMOD paper. It does not absorb later POSTGRES releases, PostgreSQL community development, all object-relational databases or implementation claims added after the paper.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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