From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: 10.0 |
Date: | 2016-06-20 22:18:33 |
Message-ID: | 20160620221833.GB24184@momjian.us |
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On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:16:48AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 5/16/16 9:53 AM, Greg Stark wrote:
> >> I thought the idea was that Berkeley tossed an source tree over the
> >> wall with no version number and then the first five releases were
> >> Postgres95 0.x, Postgres95 1.0, Postgres95 1.0.1, Postgres95 1.0.2,
> >> Postgres95 1.0.9. Then the idea was that PostgreSQL 6.0 was the sixth
> >> major release counting those as the first five releases.
>
> > The last release out of Berkeley was 4.2.
>
> Correct --- I have a copy of that tarball.
>
> > Then Postgres95 was "5", and then PostgreSQL started at 6.
>
> I wasn't actually around at the time, but our commit history starts
> with this:
>
> Author: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
> Branch: master Release: REL6_1 [d31084e9d] 1996-07-09 06:22:35 +0000
>
> Postgres95 1.01 Distribution - Virgin Sources
>
> The first mention of 6.anything is here:
>
> Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
> Branch: master Release: REL6_1 [a2b7f6297] 1996-12-28 02:01:58 +0000
>
> Updated changes for 6.0.
>
> I see no references in the commit history to 5.anything, but there
> are some references like this:
The sole reason we jumped from Postgres 1.09 to 6.0 was that in Postgres
1.0.X, $PGDATA/PG_VERSION contained '5', meaning when Berkeley went from
University Postgres 4.2 to Postgres95 1.0, they didn't reset PG_VERSION.
We really had no way of going to Postgres 2.0 unless we were prepared to
have data/PG_VERSION never match the major version number.
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