diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 0827978ff49fc12a20a95c28e51ee581b4230e4d..30fce9b50d838e33d6a015c89dccdd9054a7430f 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                 Release 7.1.2
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -2348,10 +2348,11 @@ Unused/uninialized variables corrected
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
-Release v1.09
+Release v1.09  (1996-11-04)
 
-Sorry, we stopped keeping track of changes from 1.02 to 1.09. Some of the
-changes listed in 6.0 were actually included in the 1.02.1 to 1.09 releases.
+Sorry, we didn't keep track of changes from 1.02 to 1.09. Some of the
+changes listed in 6.0 were actually included in the 1.02.1 to 1.09
+releases.
 
 
 
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index 3c2457c189cc060ee3234f23a85fdbe058c3269a..be14cece47aed86369975dabb2a1c713dedce4c3 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.95 2001/05/31 21:49:15 momjian Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.96 2001/06/01 00:24:21 momjian Exp $
 -->
 
  <appendix id="release">
@@ -3288,15 +3288,19 @@ Unused/uninialized variables corrected
 </author>
 </authorgroup>
 <date>
-Unknown
+1996-11-04
 </date>
 </docinfo>
 -->
 
 <para>
 
-Unknown
-Sorry, we stopped keeping track of changes from 1.02 to 1.09.  Some of
+   <note>
+   <title>Release date</title>
+   <simpara>1996-11-04</simpara>
+   </note>
+
+Sorry, we didn't keep track of changes from 1.02 to 1.09.  Some of
 the changes listed in 6.0 were actually included in the 1.02.1 to 1.09
 releases.
 </para>