We don't hire programmers. We reach across the Internet, drawing the best database developers in the world to PostgreSQL.

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.
• Lockhart, Thomas G. in Pasadena, California, USA (lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu) works on documenation, data types, particularly date/time and geometric objects, and on SQL standards compatibility.
• Mikheev, Vadim B. in Krasnoyarsk, Russia (vadim@krs.ru) does large projects, like vacuum, subselects, triggers, and multi-version concurrency control(MVCC).
• Momjian, Bruce in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us) maintains FAQ and TODO lists, code cleanup, some patch application, makes training materials, and some coding.

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.
• Elphick, Oliver in Newport, Isle of Wight, UK (olly@lfix.co.uk) maintains the PostgreSQL package for Debian GNU/Linux.
• Ishii, Tatsuo in Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan (t-ishii@sra.co.jp) handles multi-byte foreign language support and porting issues.
• Lane, Tom in Pittsburgh, PA, USA (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) has performed many PostgreSQL improvements. He has works on the optimizer and a variety of complex issues.
• Martin, Dr. Andrew C.R. in London, England (martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk) has 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 (byron.nikolaidis@home.com) rewrote and maintains the ODBC interface for Windows.
• 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.
• Vielhaber, Vince near Detroit, Michigan, USA (vev@michvhf.com) maintains our website.
• Wieck, Jan in Hamburg, Germany (jwieck@debis.com) overhauled the rewrite/rules system, wrote our procedural language plpgsql, and added the NUMERIC/DECIMAL type.

All developers listed in alphabetical order. Please report omissions or corrections to the webmaster.