Обсуждение: Celebration of 25th year?

Hi everyone,

Prefaces first : As far I remember, 1977 is the year that Postgres code
(formerly known as Ingres) began to be developed in UCB. So it's been 25
years!

Does anyone know the exact date of the first release? Or does anyone know
the exact date of the beginning of the project?

I offer to celebrate the 25th year of our database!

:)

Regards and best wishes.

--

Devrim GUNDUZ

devrim@oper.metu.edu.tr
devrim.gunduz@linux.org.tr

Web : http://devrim.oper.metu.edu.tr
-------------------------------------

Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Prefaces first : As far I remember, 1977 is the year that Postgres code
> (formerly known as Ingres) began to be developed in UCB. So it's been 25
> years!
>
> Does anyone know the exact date of the first release? Or does anyone know
> the exact date of the beginning of the project?
>
> I offer to celebrate the 25th year of our database!

I looked at my Ingres89 source and can't find a date.

--
  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://candle.pha.pa.us
  pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610) 853-3000
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026

> Prefaces first : As far I remember, 1977 is the year that Postgres code
> (formerly known as Ingres) began to be developed in UCB. So it's been 25
> years!
> Does anyone know the exact date of the first release? Or does anyone know
> the exact date of the beginning of the project?
> I offer to celebrate the 25th year of our database!

Actually, the relationship between Ingres and Postgres is only through
the developers in the CS department at Berkeley, not through a sharing
of code. Somehow that has been described differently on occasion but we
have no evidence that sharing or inheritance took place, and instead
have direct statements from folks at UCB that the code base was
intentionally abandoned in favor of new approaches.

But a nod to Ingres' anniversary is certainly warranted! It was/is a
great step forward, and imho commercial Ingres stayed ahead of its
competitors well into the '90s.

                     - Thomas