| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Jeff Davis <jdavis-pgsql(at)empires(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com>, Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: nomenclature |
| Date: | 2004-01-16 15:18:52 |
| Message-ID: | 20040116111818.C13900@ganymede.hub.org |
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Jeff Davis wrote:
> I can't point to any OSS project that completely renames its parts. I
> think a shortened version of the name makes sense (in this case
> "postgres" works well, but so does "pgsql"), and other projects do
> similar things. "Psql" for the client and "postmaster" for the daemon
> are the ones that really confuse people, I think.
I don't know, doesn't one of the databases out there use 'monitor' as
their equivalent to psql?
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