
This is an image of a t-shirt from the Berkeley Database Research Group circa 1994. According to Paul Aoki, “The turtle was adopted as a mascot by the INGRES group in the ’70s because ‘it’s slow but it gets there.’ It was retained as the POSTGRES mascot for sentimental reasons.”
Please note that the Bitly link goes to a landing page where Students, ACM Members, and Institutions who have access to the ACM Digital Library can follow a link and look to see if they can get the book through their ACM membership. Students who are ACM members can purchase for a very low rate…the retail bookstore is more for corporate customers.I insisted that my article be available for free. So they’ve decided that each book will have a “sample chapter”, and for Mike’s it’s this Postgres chapter. The ACM-formatted version is available free at the link above, but I have a standalone PDF up on arXiv and latex source on github. If you see any errors or you think I should say more about something you know about, please submit a PR on github! I’ll update the arXiv version periodically.