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by choffman 978 days ago
Article says Postgres launched in 1986. Wikipedia says 1996.
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> The implementation of POSTGRES began in 1986

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/history.html

Postgres started as a project at Berkeley.

The POSTGRES project at Berkeley started in 1986, the open source successor became PostgreSQL in 1996.