---
title: "How Postgres Quietly Became the #1 Database on Earth"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-postgres-quietly-became-the-1-database-on-earth-e5vpvubii
source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CB_Aa2ODeM
type: video:youtube
source: "Coding with Lewis"
published: 2026-06-23T14:59:36.586Z
updated: 2026-06-23T16:46:26.317Z
tags: ["postgresql"]
reading_time: 22
upvotes: 37
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How Postgres Quietly Became the #1 Database on Earth

**[Coding with Lewis](https://daily.dev/sources/codingwithlewis)** · 22 min read · 37 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

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The most critical database on the internet is maintained by a "pickup team" of volunteers with no CEO, no owner, and no clear successor. This is the 30-year story of how Postgres outlasted every database that tried to kill it — and the unanswered question of who carries it forward.

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⏱️ Chapters:

00:00 The Software Nobody Owns
00:34 Codd, Stonebreaker, and the Birth of Ingres
03:00 The Postgres Rewrite
05:12 Sponsor — Supabase
06:18 Postgres 95 and the Berkeley Handoff
08:24 The Volunteers Who Saved It
14:13 Surviving NoSQL and the Cloud Era
19:00 pgvector, AI, and the Question of Succession

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