PostgreSQL and the SQL standards process
PostgreSQL and the SQL standards process
[Front] Posted Sep 21, 2011 15:41 UTC (Wed) by n8willis
Open source and free software projects often encounter culture clash whenever they have to work with standards bodies. The most obvious problem is the secrecy that many proprietary-vendor-driven standards processes demand of participants, but that is not the only challenge. The PostgreSQL database project has been grappling with these challenges in recent weeks in an effort to strike a balance between its needs as a project and the closed structures and process of the ISO, which is the publisher of the official standard for SQL.