Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andy Astor <andy(dot)astor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)
Date: 2007-09-03 16:39:28
Message-ID: 20070903163928.GC10282@alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian escribió:
> Oh, one more thing. I think it is illustrative to look at the areas we
> _didn't_ change when we went from "Postgres95" to "PostgreSQL": the
> super-user name and the backend binary name. Those were kept as
> "postgres", and I remember no questions about why those are "postgres".

Well, that's easy: those correspond to "postgresql" truncated to 8 chars ;-)

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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