Re: Using Postgres as an alias

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >>>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>>>> But without such changes the alias is only in the FAQ and will not be
> >>>>> widely used.
> >>>> I'm not sure if this has been thought through to the end. If we make
> >>>> the point that PostgreSQL can also be called Postgres, this does not
> >>>> prevent anyone from calling it Postgre or any other forms that we might
> >>>> not like. It might in fact make people think that it has various names
> >>>> and you can call it whatever you want.
> >>> Well, they are already calling it "Postgre" without our help, so I see
> >>> us giving them a clear alternative to PostgreSQL as helping avoid
> >>> "Postgre".
> >>>
> >>> But in the end, they can continue calling us whatever they want and we
> >>> can't stop them.
> >> Then why are we bothering trying?
> >
> > Because though we can't _stop_ them, we can certainly influence them.
> > Why are you asking such simplistic questions?
>
> It seemed odd to me. You said, "we can't stop them". So it seems like an
> awful lot of wasted effort to try.

Not sure why you see this as fatalist. I can't _make_ many people do
much, but I can encourage them to do things, as you have seen. That's
what we are doing here to encourage the use of "Postgres".

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