Re: Is Ingres yet relational?

Christopher Browne <cbbrowne_at_acm.org> wrote in message news:<2hibj5Fd8lk7U1_at_uni-berlin.de>...

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> Ingres has been worked on for enough years that it would seem very
> surprising for the learning curve for new developers to be short
> enough for it to be widely worth going through the learning curve.

This is true - the architecture of PostgreSQL is fiendish enough, and the architecture of Ingres (given its feature set) is likely to be more fiendish. I get the feeling CA recognise this though and are prepared to try doing things to encourage people up the slope and start contributing. I would keep an eye on the web site for more info.

• Tony