We don't hire programmers. We reach across the Internet, drawing the best database developers in the world to PostgreSQL.
Point to the pins with your mouse to see who is where.
Steering
- Fournier, Marc G. in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada (scrappy@hub.org) coordinates the whole effort and provides the server and administers our primary web site, mailing lists, ftp site, and source code repository.
- Lane, Tom in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) Often seen working on planner/optimizer, but has left fingerprints in many places. He specializes in bug fixes and performance improvements.
- Lockhart, Thomas G. in Pasadena, California, USA (lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu) works on documentation, data types, particularly date/time and geometric objects, and on SQL standards compatibility.
- Mikheev, Vadim B. in San Fransicso, California, USA (vadim4o@email.com) does large projects, like vacuum, subselects, triggers, and multi-version concurrency control(MVCC).
- Momjian, Bruce in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) maintains FAQ and TODO lists, code cleanup, patch application, training materials, and some coding.
- Wieck, Jan near Hamburg, Germany (JanWieck@Yahoo.com) overhauled the query rewrite rule system, wrote our procedural languages PL/pgSQL and PL/Tcl and added the NUMERIC type.
Major Developers
- Cain, D'Arcy J.M. in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (darcy@druid.net) worked on the Tcl interface, PyGreSQL, and the INET type.
- Dal Zotto, Massimo near Trento, Italy (dz@cs.unitn.it) has done locking code and other improvements.
- Eisentraut, Peter in Uppsala, Sweden (peter_e@gmx.net) has added many features, including an overhaul of psql.
- Elphick, Oliver in Newport, Isle of Wight, UK (olly@lfix.co.uk) maintains the PostgreSQL package for Debian Linux.
- Horak, Daniel near Pilzen, Czech Republic (dan.horak@email.cz) did the WinNT port of PostgreSQL (using the Cygwin environment).
- Inoue, Hiroshi in Fukui, Japan (Inoue@tpf.co.jp) improved btree index access.
- Ishii, Tatsuo in Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan (t-ishii@sra.co.jp) handles multi-byte foreign language support and porting issues.
- Martin, Dr. Andrew C.R. in London, England (martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk) has done the ecpg interface and helped in the Linux and Irix FAQs including some patches to the PostgreSQL code.
- Mergl, Edmund in Stuttgart, Germany (E.Mergl@bawue.de) created and maintains pgsql_perl5. He also created DBD-Pg which is available via CPAN.
- Meskes, Michael in Dusseldorf, Germany (meskes@postgresql.org) handles multi-byte foreign language support, and maintains ecpg.
- Mount, Peter in Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom (peter@retep.org.uk) has done the Java JDBC Interface.
- Nikolaidis, Byron in Baltimore, Maryland, USA (byron.nikolaidis@home.com) rewrote and maintains the ODBC interface for Windows.
- Owen, Lamar in Pisgah Forest, North Carolina, USA (lamar.owen@wgcr.org) RPM package maintainer.
- Teodorescu, Constantin in Braila, Romania (teo@flex.ro) has done the PgAccess DB Interface.
- Thyni, Göran in Kiruna, Sweden (goran@kyla.kiruna.se) has worked on the unix socket code.
Non-code contributors
- Bartunov, Oleg in Moscow, Russia (oleg@sai.msu.su) introduced the locale support.
- Vielhaber, Vince near Detroit, Michigan, USA (vev@michvhf.com) maintains our web site.