| From: | Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Peter van Hardenberg <pvh(at)pvh(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: We are getting old |
| Date: | 2021-03-08 08:33:23 |
| Message-ID: | ed47bf0c3ea27c8aefb909bb364b1b49@postgresql.org |
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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. :)
+ Justin
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