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Definition: PostgreSQL


A comprehensive open source relational DBMS from PostgreSQL Global Development Group. Running on all major platforms and evolving from the Ingres DBMS in the 1980s, PostgreSQL was originally named POSTGRES (meaning "after Ingres"). It was named PostgreSQL in 1996 when support for the SQL query language was added. See Ingres.