Re: 20th anniversary of PostgreSQL ?

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Damien Clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info>
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-advocacy-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 20th anniversary of PostgreSQL ?
Date: 2016-01-17 17:54:06
Message-ID: 569BD53E.5020004@joeconway.com
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On 01/17/2016 07:28 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 12:27:06PM +0100, 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.
>
> Oh, the website. OK, makes sense.
>
>> I don't really care though. We can define the birthdate as July
>> 9,1996. We can even avoid completely defining a specific date and

Considering we held the 10 year anniversary in July, seems like we ought
to stick with that.

Joe

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