Re: [CORE] Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Of course, that's 70% of -advocacy, which by nature is going to be the
> >> subset of the community most interested in this change and least
> >> interested in the ensuing costs.
>
> > It seems there were a significant number of people with swag who will
> > pay the cost somehow.
>
> That's adopting exactly the view I thought it was, that only directly
> marketing-related costs matter. Again, this seems to be considering
> only advocacy-related concerns.
>
> I'll confine my reply to one point: do you have any idea what will
> happen if I try to change the default PGDATA location on Red Hat
> from /var/lib/pgsql to something else?

As I said about the username and binary name still being "postgres", I
would think PostgreSQL (pgsql) would be fine to remain unchanged in many
places.

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