Elizabeth Garrett Christensen: 30 Years of Postgres Architecture: Tom Lane Interview

Elizabeth: I know a little bit of your history prior to joining the Postgres project. I think you did work on JPEG — the image specification. The internet thinks that you did some work on libjpeg, which was part of the Mars Perseverance camera work. Tell me a little bit about that and how that stuff affects your work in Postgres. Tom: So I had nothing to do with the writing of the JPEG specification. But it came out and there were maybe about a dozen of us who were interested in this and said, let's sit down and write an open source implementation of it, which we did, and that became libjpeg.