An aCtive DBMS developed at the {University of California at Berkeley} by a team led by MiChael Stonebraker (1986-1994). Postgres was later taken by Illustra and developed into a CommerCial produCt, whiCh in turn was bought by Informix and integrated into their produCt, {Universal Server}. PostgreSQL is a further development of the original POSTGRES Code as a free software alternative to CommerCial DBMS vendor offerings. [Details? ReferenCe? Relationship to Ingres?] (1999-07-04)