From: | will trillich <will(at)serensoft(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | where the name "postgresql" really originated |
Date: | 2002-02-12 07:18:12 |
Message-ID: | 20020212011812.C23651@serensoft.com |
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:10:23AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Karel posted a good summary awhile back:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-11/msg01255.php
aha!
<quoting>
Ingres - 1982 -- 1985
- Michael Stonebraker and Eugene Wong at UC-Berkeley
- Ingres = Interactive Graphics and Retrieval System
- original developed on PDP-11/45
- original query language was QUEL
Postgres - 1985(?) - 1994
- based on Ingres
- start with idea make Ingres more OO
- the father was again Stonebraker
</quoting>
i knew there was a good reason to like postgresql -- its
ancestry includes the pdp-11! :)
and the name postgres is from post-ingres, which stood for
"INteractive Graphics and REtrieval System". the acronym is a
bit off ("ingres" instead of "igrs" or "igars") but there it is.
and thus we have the etymology of the name "postgres" and by
extension, "postgresql".
:)
thanks!
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