When was Postgres born?

It is very difficult to pin down the date when Postgres (a.k.a PostgreSQL) project was born. If you look at the official history on the Postgres website, you’d see a few years mentioned, as early as the year 1986, but no specific dates.

Unofficial Birth Timestamp of Postgres

If we go by the timestamp of the first commit in Postgres code repository, the project was started at ‘Tue Jul 9 06:22:35 1996 +0000’. Going by that date, today the Postgres project turns 25 years old.

$ psql -c "select age(now(), 'Tue Jul 9 06:22:35 1996 +0000')"
                   age
------------------------------------------
 24 years 11 mons 30 days 22:39:46.830704
(1 row)

Oh, it’s so close…

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Future

If you haven’t been following the progress of the Postgres project, I implore you to do so now (see below). The future of the Postgres project is very bright. Its feature set has been growing steadily, while retaining its legendary commitment to stability and correctness.

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We have these awesome contributors, and many others who are not listed there, to thank for the current state of their projects, and their tireless work.

These contributors, and many others, blog regularly about what’s happening in the Postgres world, and those blog posts are aggregated at Planet Postgres. Feel free to subscribe to any of the many RSS feeds there (even by an author you may be interested in).

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