Re: 20th anniversary of PostgreSQL ?

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Julyanto Sutandang <julyanto(at)equnix(dot)co(dot)id>, Mike Toews <mwtoews(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 20th anniversary of PostgreSQL ?
Date: 2015-04-08 19:31:15
Message-ID: CABUevEwB0a0w39=f2vzZABvLECoV-OiAW_0nMDVx+b5UvCrF_A@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)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(at)equnix(dot)co(dot)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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Magnus Hagander
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