On 5/16/16 9:53 AM, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
>> If that were the standard, we'd never have bumped the major version at
>> all, and would still be on 4.something (or whatever Berkeley was using
>> when they tossed it over the wall; I'm not too clear on whether there was
>> ever a 5.x release).
>
> I thought the idea was that Berkeley tossed an source tree over the
> wall with no version number and then the first five releases were
> Postgres95 0.x, Postgres95 1.0, Postgres95 1.0.1, Postgres95 1.0.2,
> Postgres95 1.0.9. Then the idea was that PostgreSQL 6.0 was the sixth
> major release counting those as the first five releases.
The last release out of Berkeley was 4.2. Then Postgres95 was "5", and
then PostgreSQL started at 6.
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