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Re:Appropriate Uses for SQLite by elchief on Monday September 26, 2016 @01:52AM (#12579518)
Sqlite was a postgres fork, off of 8.something, IIRC
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Re:Appropriate Uses for SQLite by pmontra on Monday September 26, 2016 @02:22AM (#12579649)
It owes something to PostgreSQL but it's the syntax, not the source code. I quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite#History

    Hipp based the syntax and semantics on those of PostgreSQL 6.5. In August 2000, version 1.0 of SQLite was released, with storage based on gdbm (GNU Database Manager).
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Re:Appropriate Uses for SQLite by elchief on Monday September 26, 2016 @01:09PM (#12583587)
According to these slides from Sqlite founder, Sqlite was a "spin-off" of Postgres: http://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/attachments/319_PGCon2014...

According to this, "SQLite was originally written from PostgreSQL 6.5 documentation" https://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/events/736.en.html

So, "fork" wasn't the right word. Apologies.

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Re:Appropriate Uses for SQLite by yoo1I on Monday September 26, 2016 @02:05AM (#12579563)
No. This is incorrect.
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