Re: New PGXN Extension site

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
Cc: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(dot)wheeler(at)pgexperts(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New PGXN Extension site
Date: 2010-06-16 16:41:07
Message-ID: 1276706467.25660.3.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com
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On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:03 +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> David E. Wheeler wrote:
> > On Jun 15, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> >
> >> I think this project is a great idea, and I think as a community we
> >> ought to be behind it 100%.
> >>
> >> However, I do wonder what happened to the original name, which IIRC
> >> was PGAN. That seems easier to pronounce, remember, ...
> >
> > I didn't care for it, personally. "Pee-Gan" sounds weird to my ear. I prefer "pee-gee-ex-en." But you can go for "pixin" or "pigskin" if you'd rather. ;-)
> >
> > My bike shed is chartreuse,
>
> heh I'm with Robert on that PGXN just sounds and speels weird - PGAN was
> much easier ;)

I actually like PGXN. PGXN is marketable. Yeah that may not be what
-hackers are after but if I stand up in front of a Fortune 500 company
and say, "We have PGXN" it sounds a heck of a lot better that PGAN.

Joshua D. Drake

>
>
> Stefan
>

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