Re: We are getting old

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 07:33:23PM +1100, Justin Clift wrote:
> On 2021-03-08 19:17, Peter van Hardenberg wrote:
> > Oh, hello! You could date from the first POSTGRES paper by Stonebraker
> > (85), or from Jolly Chen & Andrew Yu's Postgres95 releases (95ish) but I
> > think the best time to date from would be when Marc volunteered to set
> > up
> > the Postgres CVS repo in April of '96. You could also date from Marc's
> > tragically concluding there was consensus around PostgreSQL in October
> > of
> > the same year.
> >
> > I collected a bunch of this stuff for a Postgres history talk a while
> > back.
> > Not sure if there is a video but slides are archived here:
> > https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2017/sessions/session/1621/slides/49/PGCONF.EUAnIllustratedHistoryofPostgreSQL.pdf
>
> Oh, that's kind of nifty. The "THE DESIGN OF POSTGRES" paper is dated as
> 1986 in your slides though. That's the "first POSTGRES paper" you're
> meaning?
>
> Either way, that's a good "start" marker design wise, even though coding
> may have started later on. :)

Yes, I am told _coding_ started in 1986.

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