Re: We are getting old

"Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> On 3/7/21 9:17 AM, Vik Fearing wrote:
>> I wouldn't be against just saying "the 80's", perhaps with some
>> superfluous neon

> Technically, the above falls in the purview of -docs as it's in the docs
> themselves, though we do link to it from pgweb.
> To compare, -www[1] says "over 30 years of active development" so we
> could certainly increment the decade count.
> I'd also be completely for lifting the first two sentences from [1] and
> placing them in the documentation.

+1 for removing the year count in both places, as we'll just forget to
maintain it.

I think referring to "the 1980s" would be fine, but if we can pin it
down more that'd be even better. I see the www page specifies "1986";
do we have evidence favoring that particular year as the start?

regards, tom lane