| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Shashank Tripathi <shashank(dot)tripathi(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | John Wang <johncwang(at)gmail(dot)com>, Satoshi Nagayasu <snaga(at)snaga(dot)org>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Change the name |
| Date: | 2007-09-26 13:25:07 |
| Message-ID: | 20070926132507.GI5584@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Shashank Tripathi escribió:
> I've heard (third-hand, I admit) that Postgre (without the S) would
> please people in Latin America, so if you're working with
> Brazil-returned Japanese, then I could see where you're coming from.
> But we have on our team a Venezuelan and he actually prefers Postgres
> because, in his words, "it doesn't leave the word hanging and sounds
> more like a word".
Just to confirm: in spanish, people use "Postgre" only because it's what
looks like the name when you strip the SQL part. But "Postgres" sounds
a lot more like a real word.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
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