Re: 20th anniversary of PostgreSQL ? - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: 20th anniversary of PostgreSQL ?
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Msg-id 20160118165202.GA77844@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: 20th anniversary of PostgreSQL ?  (Damien Clochard <damien@dalibo.info>)
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Damien Clochard wrote:
>
> >
> >I am curious why you chose that date?  I always thought it was the
> >creation of the CVS tree on July 9, 1996.
>
> Clearly I'm not familiar that part of PostgreSQL history but last year, Dave
> told me that the birthdate was the start of the online presence, which seems
> to be 22/10/1996 when Marc Fournier bought the postgresql.org domain.
>
> I don't really care though. We can define the birthdate as July 9,1996.

FYI the renaming in CVS took place in December 1996
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=1b929d174916a0e226c72927932bdbdd1230dcb0
but that's just a matter of changing the name.  It seems clear from the
code history that the community efforts began in July with the initial
commit from Marc,

commit d31084e9d1118b25fd16580d9d8c2924b5740dff
Author:     Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
AuthorDate: Tue Jul 9 06:22:35 1996 +0000
CommitDate: Tue Jul 9 06:22:35 1996 +0000

    Postgres95 1.01 Distribution - Virgin Sources


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