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.
Contributors
- Michael Stonebraker · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Lawrence A. Rowe · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
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