Re: What is 'Postgres'?

On 6 Sep 2002, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 15:05, Markus Wagner wrote:
> ...
> > spectrum there is a DBMS called 'Postgres', and I wonder if this one could be
> > 'our' PostgreSQL. I never heared about something called 'Postgres', but maybe
> > this could be a name for the actual PostgreSQL used in the past.
> ...
> > Can anyone provide a clarification?
> >
> > Here is the reference:
> >
> > J. Widom. Deductive and Active Databases: Two Paradigms or Ends of a Spectrum?
> > Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Rules in Database Systems,
> > pages 306-315, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1993.
>
> In 1993, PostgreSQL was called Postgres. After it was abandoned by
> Berkeley and taken over by the current team, it was renamed to
> Postgres95 and later to PostgreSQL.

Close, Postgres95 was still in Berkeley and was being developed by Jolly
and Andrew as part of their graduate work ... the reason why went with
Postgres95 was a play on another software package that was around in '95
...