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

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: 20th anniversary of PostgreSQL ?
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In response to Re: 20th anniversary of PostgreSQL ?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: 20th anniversary of PostgreSQL ?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Wed, Apr  8, 2015 at 09:45:05AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:38 AM, julyanto SUTANDANG <julyanto@equnix.co.id>
> wrote:
>
>     I thought that were no Postgres 1.0 since Postgres is continuing Ingres,
>     then Postgres95.
>     Postgres started from version 6.0 to give credit of the past development 
>
>
> PostgreSQL started from version 6.0.
> Postgres95 started from version 1.0 (though we can pretend it was 5.0)
> POSTGRES had at least versions 4.x. 4.2 was the last release.

Actually, I think Postgres95 had "5.X" in its $PGDATA/PG_VERSION, which
forced us to start PostgreSQL at 6.0, in case any applications were
looking there for version information.

Oh really? That's even more confusing than I thought, and I thought it was pretty bad :)  
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