How agents are stoking new interest in a 40-year-old database

How agents are stoking new interest in a 40-year-old database

For the fourth straight year, Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey has found that PostgreSQL tops the list of the database management systems developers prefer — and the favorability ratings even ticked up from last year.

If it seems odd that a 40-year-old open-source engine should have such staying power, Phillip Merrick (pictured), co-founder and chief executive of pgEdge Inc., says the reason is simple: The rapid rise of artificial intelligence coding…