| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Patrick TJ McPhee <ptjm(at)interlog(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: What means Postgres? |
| Date: | 2005-04-20 16:28:36 |
| Message-ID: | 20050420132739.J76866@ganymede.hub.org |
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 03:03 +0000, Patrick TJ McPhee wrote:
>> In article <d43bfc$1h54$1(at)news(dot)hub(dot)org>,
>> Daniel Schuchardt <daniel_schuchardt(at)web(dot)de> wrote:
>>
>> % but there it is only clear that Postgres is based in Ingres. But i also
>> % don't know what Ingres means.
>>
>> Ingres was a Spanish painter. Not every name has to mean something.
>
> Spanish? I always thought he was a French painter.
He was:
http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Art/Ingres/Ingres.shtml
And its pronounced: {ang'-gruh}
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