The POSTGRES Data Model

Summary: Relational core extended with abstract data types, user-defined operators and procedures, plus inheritance. Supports aggregation, generalization, and complex objects with shared subobjects, plus cross-tuple references. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7981
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 0.00012104924
Overall Rank: 1,118 | 92.34%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Lawrence A. Rowe (University of California)
2. Michael R. Stonebraker (University of California)

BibTeX Citation

@article{rowe_vldb87,
        title = {{The POSTGRES Data Model}},
        author = {Rowe, Lawrence A. and Stonebraker, Michael R.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '87},
        pages = {83},
        year = {1987}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
146	On Rules, Procedures, Caching And Views In Data Base Systems	1990	SIGMOD	0.00029540467
497	The Design of XPRS	1988	VLDB	0.00017462492
684	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014990873
1,228	A Model of Queries for Object-Oriented Databases	1989	VLDB	0.00011579246
1,493	Performance Enhancement Through Replication in an Object-Oriented DBMS	1989	SIGMOD	0.00010581031
1,662	ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model	1989	SIGMOD	0.00010075123
1,816	A Performance Study of Query Optimization Algorithms on a Database System Supporting Procedures	1988	VLDB	9.6840978e-05
2,971	Design and Implementation of an Extensible Database Management System Supporting User Defined Data Types and Functions	1988	VLDB	7.9120946e-05
3,257	One WITH RECURSIVE is Worth Many GOTOs	2021	SIGMOD	7.590651e-05
5,684	Snakes on a Plan: Compiling Python Functions into Plain SQL Queries	2022	SIGMOD	6.1224825e-05
6,328	Functional-Style SQL UDFs With a Capital 'F'	2020	SIGMOD	5.9113895e-05
6,464	Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems	1990	PODS	5.8714103e-05
7,014	Extending the Relational Algebra to Capture Complex Objects	1989	VLDB	5.7258694e-05
8,561	Coral++: Adding Object-Orientation to a Logic Database Language	1993	VLDB	5.4119882e-05
9,957	How DuckDB is USING KEY to Unlock Recursive Query Performance	2025	SIGMOD	5.1879626e-05
10,040	SQL Engines Excel at the Execution of Imperative Programs	2024	VLDB	5.1723558e-05
11,354	mutable: A Modern DBMS for Research and Fast Prototyping	2023	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,484	Data Management for High-Throughput Genomics	2009	CIDR	5.093636e-05
13,096	Experiences With an Object Manager for a Process-Centered Environment	1992	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,137	Incorporating Hierarchy in a Relational Model of Data	1989	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
15	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00061144858
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049302774
92	The Database Language GEM	1983	SIGMOD	0.00034759032
139	A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00029742792
147	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00029474235
181	On Extending the Functions of a Relational Database System	1982	SIGMOD	0.00026752689
346	A DBMS Prototype to Support Extended NF2 Relations: An Integrated View on Flat Tables and Hierarchies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00020654241
1,099	Quel As A Data Type	1984	SIGMOD	0.0001217465

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