Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Robert Bernier <robert(dot)bernier5(at)sympatico(dot)ca>, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Ron Peterson <ron(dot)peterson(at)yellowbank(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
Subject: Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)
Date: 2007-08-28 20:42:51
Message-ID: 200708281642.52292.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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On Tuesday 28 August 2007 12:34, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-28-08 at 11:15 -0400, Robert Bernier wrote:
> > How many people feel we should adopt 'postgres' for the '9.0'
> > reference documentation (let's leave the issue of the tons of work
> > involved out of the debate for the moment)?
>
> +1 -- I think we should make the name change, but I don't have any
> strong preference about when we ought to do it (now, for 8.3, for 8.4,
> etc -- I wouldn't necessarily want to wait for some far-off theoretical
> 9.0 release).
>

If we were going to do it, I might suggest to not do it at release time, lest
people get the impression that the rename should signify some new level of
instability.

--
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} Postgres

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