Some POSTGRES applications…

…that were out of the ordinary. (These are not urban legends, these are all based on bug reports or other support requests we received first-hand.)

• cruise missile “threat assessment” system (Johns Hopkins APL / U. S. Navy Tomahawk Program Office, 1991)
• “evaluation of automatic target recognizer (ATR) algorithms” (U. S. Army Night Vision & Electro-Optics Directorate, 1993)
• “a jet engine measuring system” (General Electric, 1993)
• “an asteroid detection project, which aims at discovering earth-grazing asteroids which are potentially dangerous for the Earth.” (Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur, 1993)
• “Geoinformation Systems for the problems of the Chernobyl accident” (TechnoSoft, Ukraine, 1992) and other unspecified applications (Russian Nuclear Safety Institute, Moscow, 1993)

(Now, of course, folks use PostgreSQL for all sorts of things. We’re talking about student-written and -supported code, here!)