# PostgreSQL

Standing (still-up). Founded 1996-07-08.
Site: [postgresql.org](https://postgresql.org)

PostgreSQL 6.0 released 8 Jul 1996. The adult in the room for thirty years.

## Why it lasted
- It is the database you graduate to, and then never leave.
- Extensions (PostGIS, pgvector, Citus) let it absorb the specialty database of the year without a migration.
- Oracle priced people into it. MySQL licensed people into it. Postgres just kept being good.

## Near deaths
- Noam's original POSTGRES at Berkeley could have stayed a research toy. The SQL rewrite in 1996 made it a product.
- NoSQL was supposed to end relational. Postgres waited, then added JSONB.

## What would finish it
- A managed default that is not Postgres and is genuinely better at the boring jobs. Aurora still speaks it.

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