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These are the fine people that make PostgreSQL what it is today!
Core Team
| Contributor | Contribution |
|---|---|
| Josh Berkus (josh at agliodbs.com) Sun San Francisco, California, USA |
Provides general direction for PostgreSQL advocacy, works on performance testing, tuning and documentation, and leads the pgFoundry administration team. |
| Peter Eisentraut (peter_e at gmx.net) credativ GmbH Aachen, Germany |
Works on the build system, porting, documentation, and the internationalization effort, and codes many other improvements. |
| Marc G. Fournier (scrappy at hub.org), Hub.Org Networking Services Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Coordinates the entire effort, helps administer the postgresql.org websites, mailing lists, ftp site, and source code repository. |
| Tom Lane (tgl at sss.pgh.pa.us) Red Hat Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
Involved in all aspects of PostgreSQL, including bug evaluation and fixes, performance improvements, and major new features, such as schemas. He is also responsible for the optimizer. |
| Bruce Momjian (bruce_at_momjian.us) EnterpriseDB Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Maintains FAQ and TODO lists, codes, applies patches, and does training. |
| Dave Page (dpage at postgresql.org) EnterpriseDB Oxfordshire, United Kingdom |
Created and maintains pgAdmin, manages releases of the ODBC driver, helps manage the postgresql.org websites and wrote and maintains much of the Win32 PostgreSQL installer. |
| Jan Wieck (JanWieck at Yahoo.com) Afilias USA INC. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Overhauled the query rewrite rule system, wrote our procedural languages PL/pgSQL and PL/Tcl, and added the NUMERIC data type. |
Hackers Emeritus
The following hackers were previously part of the core team. Although they no longer work on the project, they are included here in recognition of their valuable contributions over the years.
| Contributor | Contribution |
|---|---|
| Thomas G. Lockhart (lockhart at alumni.caltech.edu) Jet Propulsion Labratory Pasadena, California, USA |
Worked on documentation, data types (particularly date/time and geometric), and SQL standards compliance. |
| Vadim B. Mikheev (vadim4o at yahoo.com) San Francisco, California, USA |
Undertook large projects, like vacuum, subselects, triggers, Write Ahead Log (WAL) and multi-version concurrency control (MVCC). |
Major Developers
| Contributor | Contribution |
|---|---|
| Oleg Bartunov (oleg at sai.msu.su) SAI-MSU Moscow, Russia |
Introduced the locale support and is improving GIST. Has contributed full text search support in PostgreSQL, fuzzy search, support for tree-like structures and other GiST based modules. |
| Joe Conway (mail at joeconway.com) San Diego, California, USA |
Has added functions returning table sets, PL/R, /contrib/dblink, and other nifty features. |
| Neil Conway (neilc at samurai.com) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Has completed many, many important TODO items. |
| Dave Cramer (Dave at micro-automation.net) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Helps maintain the JDBC driver and works on PL/J. |
| Andrew Dunstan (andrew at dunslane.net) Apex (near Raleigh), North Carolina, USA |
Has contributed in a number of areas, including configuration and logging enhancements, dollar quoting, CSV import/export, upgraded plperlng, the Win32 port, rewriting the initdb and pg_ctl scripts in C, a double metaphone function in contrib, and maintains the buildfarm project. |
| David Fetter (david at fetter.org) David Fetter Consulting Oakland, California, United States |
Works on pgFoundry, plperl, dbi-link, zoso (mainframe port), and the PostgreSQL Weekly News |
| Devrim Gündüz (devrim at commandprompt.com) Command Prompt, Inc. Istanbul, Turkey |
Coordinates RPM maintainance, website maintainance, builds PostgreSQL related packages for Fedora, and leads our advocacy efforts in Turkey. |
| Magnus Hagander (magnus at hagander.net) Stockholm, Sweden |
Has done major work on the Win32 port, wrote much of the Win32 Installer, and helps maintain the PostgreSQL websites. |
| Alvaro Herrera (alvherre at commandprompt.com) Command Prompt, Inc. Valdivia, Chile |
Fixed CLUSTER, worked on savepoints, added shared row locking, added shared dependency tracking, integrated autovacuum into the backend, and other minutia. |
| Hiroshi Inoue (Inoue at tpf.co.jp) Fukui, Japan |
Improved btree index access, worked on ODBC driver, helps with scaleability and code testing. |
| Tatsuo Ishii (t-ishii at sra.co.jp) Software Research Associates Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan |
Handles multi-byte foreign language support and porting issues. |
| Christopher Kings-Lynne (chriskl at familyhealth.com.au) Family Health Network Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
Has made major improvements to the ALTER TABLE command and maintains phpPgAdmin. |
| Michael Meskes (meskes at postgresql.org) Credativ Düsseldorf, Germany |
Maintains ecpg. |
| Claudio Natoli (claudio.natoli at memetrics.com) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Did the intial Win32 backend porting and remains committed to the development of this port. |
| Andreas Pflug (pgadmin at pse-consulting.de) PSE Consulting Hamburg, Germany |
Worked on the syslog subprocess, integrated dbsize into the backend, enhancements for server side administration, and did the bulk of the pgAdmin III coding, which he helps maintain. |
| Simon Riggs (simon at 2ndquadrant.com) EnterpriseDB Oxfordshire, United Kingdom |
Point in Time Recovery, Table Partitioning, focuses on enterprise issues and data warehousing. |
| Greg Sabino Mullane (greg at turnstep.com) End Point Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Maintains DBD::Pg, works on psql, helps maintain the website and mailing lists, and works on advocacy issues. |
| Hiroshi Saito (z-saito at guitar.ocn.ne.jp) Tokyo, Japan |
Works on pgAdmin, ODBC, Win32 builds and more. |
| Gavin Sherry (gavin_at_alcove.com.au) Alcove Systems Engineering Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Has added tablespaces. |
| Teodor Sigaev (teodor at sigaev.ru) Delta-Soft LLC Moscow, Russia |
Works on GIST and other indexes, full-text search, support for tree-like structures and other GiST based modules. |
| Stephan Szabo (sszabo_at_megazone23.bigpanda.com) San Francisco, California, USA |
Has contributed most of the foreign key code and actively maintains it. |
| Rod Taylor (pg at rbt.ca) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Has added dependency tracking, DOMAIN support, and other TODO items. |
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Robert Treat (xzilla at users.sourceforge.net) OmniTI Ellicott City, Maryland, USA |
Helps manage the postgresql.org websites, maintains the phpPgAdmin project, works on a number of advocacy related items |
| Martin Van Oosterhout (kleptog at svana.org) Delft, Netherlands |
Worked on a number of features including libpq, psql, shared objects and libraries, shell types and warnings for improper config options |
Other Contributors
| Gevik Babakhani (pgdev at xs4all.nl) | Dennis Björklund (d at zigo.dhs.org) | ||
| Christopher Browne (cbbrowne at ca.afilias.info) | Fabien Coelho (coelho at cri.ensmp.fr) | ||
| Sean Chittenden (sean at chittenden.org) | Korry Douglas (korryd at enterprisedb.com) | ||
| Francisco Figueiredo (fxjrlists at yahoo.com.br) | Michael Fuhr (mike at fuhr.org) | ||
| Stephen Frost (sfrost at snowman.net) | Michael Glaesemann (grzm at myrealbox.com) | ||
| Thomas Hallgren (thomas at tada.se) | Jonah Harris(jonah.harris at gmail.com) | ||
| John Hansen (john at geeknet.com.au) | Kris Jurka (jurka at ejurka.com) | ||
| Mark Kirkwood (markir at paradise.net.nz) | Manfred Koizar (mkoi-pg at aon.at) | ||
| Marko Kreen (marko at l-t.ee) | Hannu Krosing (hannu at skype.net) | ||
| Sergey E. Koposov (math at sai.msu.ru) | Heikki Linnakangas (hlinnaka at iki.fi) | ||
| Robert Lor (Robert.Lor at Sun.com) | Abhijit Menon-Sen (ams at oryx.com) | ||
| Fernando Nasser (fnasser at redhat.com) Red Hat |
Matthew T. O'Connor (matthew at zeut.net) | ||
| Larry Rosenman (ler at lerctr.org) | Sven Suursoho (sven at spam.pri.ee) | ||
| Greg Stark (stark at enterprisedb.com) | Pavel Stehule (stehule at kix.fsv.cvut.cz) | ||
| Euler Taveira de Oliveira (eulerto at yahoo.com.br) | ITAGAKI Takahiro (itagaki.takahiro at lab.ntt.co.jp) | ||
| Philip Warner (pjw at rhyme.com.au) Albatross Consulting |
Joachim Wieland (joe at mcknight.de) | ||
| Mark Wong (markw at osdl.org) | Andreas Zeugswetter (ZeugswetterA at wien.spardat.at) | ||
| Qingqing Zhou (zhouqq at cs.toronto.edu) |
Past Contributors
| Julian Assange (proff at suburbia.net) | david bennett (dave at bensoft.com) | ||
| Alexey Borzov (borz_off at cs.msu.su) | Emily Boyd (emily at emilyboyd.com) | ||
| Justin Clift (justin at postgresql.org) | Massimo Dal Zotto (dz at cs.unitn.it) | ||
| Chris Dunlop (chris at onthe.net.au) | "J. Douglas Dunlop" (dunlop at eol.ists.ca) | ||
| Dr_George_D_Detlefsen (drgeorge at ilt.com) | Oliver Elphick (olly at lfix.co.uk) |
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| Brian E. Gallew (geek+ at cmu.edu) | Cees de Groot (C.deGroot at inter.NL.net) | ||
| Kurt J. Lidl (lidl at va.pubnix.com) | Barry Lind (barry at xythos.com) |
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| Anoop Kumar (anoopk at pervasive-postgres.com) | Randy Kunkee (kunkee at Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) | ||
| Dan McGuirk (mcguirk at indirect.com) | ernst.molitor at uni-bonn.de (ernst.molitor at uni-bonn.de) | ||
| Lamar Owen (lamar.owen at wgcr.org) |
Ross J. Reedstrom (reedstrm at rice.edu) | ||
| Michael Siebenborn (michael.siebenborn at ae3.Hypo.DE ) | Sergej Sergeev (sergej at commandprompt.com) | ||
| Erich Stamberger (eberger at gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at) | Adam Sussman (myddryn at vidya.com) | ||
| Thomas van Reimersdahl ( reimersd at dali.techinfo.rwth-aachen.de) | Paul "Shag" Walmsley (ccshag at cclabs.missouri.edu) | ||
| Reini Urbanr (urban at x-ray.at) | Rick Weldon (rick at wisetech.com) | ||
| Jason Wright (jason at shiloh.vnet.net) | Karel Zak, (kzak at redhat.com) |
All developers are listed in alphabetical order. Please report omissions or corrections to the webmaster.