posture

n 1: position or arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he

assumed an attitude of surrender" [syn: {position}, {attitude}]

2: characteristic way of bearing one's body: "stood with good

posture" [syn: {carriage}, {bearing}]

3: a rationalized mental attitude [syn: {position}]

v : as for artistic purposes [syn: {model}, {pose}, {sit}]

POSTGRES

An {active DBMS} developed at the {University of

California at Berkeley} by a team led by Michael Stonebraker

(1986-1994). Postgres was later taken by {Illustra} and

developed into a commercial product, which in turn was bought

by {Informix} and integrated into their product, {Universal

Server}.

{PostgreSQL} is a further development of the original POSTGRES

code as a {free software} alternative to commercial {DBMS}

vendor offerings.

[Details? Reference? Relationship to {Ingres}?]

(1999-07-04)