Re: 20th anniversary of PostgreSQL ?

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

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PostgreSQL, originally called Postgres, was created at UCB by a computer
science professor named Michael Stonebraker, who went on to become the CTO
of Informix Corporation. Stonebraker started Postgres in 1986 as a followup
project to its predecessor, Ingres, now owned by Computer Associates. The
name Postgres thus plays off of its predecessor (as in "after Ingres").
Ingres, developed from 1977 to 1985, had been an exercise in creating a
database system according to classic RDBMS theory. Postgres, developed
between 1986-1994, was a project meant to break new ground in database
concepts such as exploration of "object relational" technologies.

Stonebraker and his graduate students actively developed Postgres for eight
years. During that time, Postgres introduced rules, procedures, time
travel, extensible types with indices and object-relational concepts.
Postgres was later commercialized to become Illustra which was later bought
by Informix and integrated into its Universal Server. Informix was
purchased by IBM in 2001 for one billion dollars
<http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2428/IDG010424informix/>.

In 1995, two Ph.D. students from Stonebraker's lab, Andrew Yu and Jolly
Chen, replaced Postgres' POSTQUEL query language with an extended subset of
SQL. They renamed the system to Postgres95.

In 1996, Postgres95 departed from academia and started a new life in the
open source world when a group of dedicated developers outside of Berkeley
saw the promise of the system, and devoted themselves to its continued
development. Contributing enormous amounts of time, skill, labor, and
technical expertise, this global development group radically transformed
Postgres. Over the next eight years, they brought consistency and
uniformity to the code base, created detailed regression tests for quality
assurance, set up mailing lists for bug reports, fixed innumerable bugs,
added incredible new features, and rounded out the system by filling
various gaps such as documentation for developers and users.

The fruition of their labor was a new database that garnered a reputation
for rock solid stability. With the start of its new life in the open source
world, with many new features and enhancements, the database system took
its current name: PostgreSQL. ("Postgres" is still used as an
easy-to-pronounce nick-name.)

PostgreSQL began at version 6.0, giving credit to its many years of prior
development

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On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Mike Toews <mwtoews(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Yet another metric used to define an initial release is the date of
>> the 1.0 version.
>>
>> From the first archive capture [1] this is "Postgres95 1.0 ... Tue Sep
>> 5 11:24:11 PDT 1995"
>>
>
> That is the Postgres95 version 1.0. There was also sometime in ancient
> history a Postgres 1.0 I believe (though I don't think it ever made it
> outside Berkeley?)
>
> So it depends on if we're doing the birthday for Postgres, Postgres95 or
> PostgreSQL.
>
> --
> Magnus Hagander
> Me: http://www.hagander.net/
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>

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