Re: 20th anniversary of PostgreSQL ?

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.
>
> I don't really care though. We can define the birthdate as July 9,1996.

FYI the renaming in CVS took place in December 1996
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=1b929d174916a0e226c72927932bdbdd1230dcb0
but that's just a matter of changing the name. It seems clear from the
code history that the community efforts began in July with the initial
commit from Marc,

commit d31084e9d1118b25fd16580d9d8c2924b5740dff
Author: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
AuthorDate: Tue Jul 9 06:22:35 1996 +0000
CommitDate: Tue Jul 9 06:22:35 1996 +0000

Postgres95 1.01 Distribution - Virgin Sources

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