Bruce Momjian years ago salvaged a nearly abandoned open source database project: PostgreSQL. Today he heads an international group helping to keep its community growing. He also is a key architect for a commercial database company that supports his advisory group and the Postgres open source community.PostreSQL, a popular open source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS), is more commonly known as “Postgres.” The free community-driven software owes much of its success in a very competitive database field to the PostgreSQL Global Development Group headed by Bruce Momjian.Linux distributions typically have PostgreSQL available in supplied packages. Apple’s OS X has PostgreSQL server as its standard default database in the server edition, and it includes PostgreSQL client tools in the desktop edition.Momjian is instrumental in guiding the PostreSQL community, considered to be the world’s largest independent open source development community. He is not the inventor of the open source database, but he stepped into a leading role in developing the project when it was close to being abandoned some 18 years ago.He did not start out as a computer programmer, but his strong interest in what makes databases work gave him a hands-on desire to fix what he saw broken. Momjian started…