| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> |
| Cc: | Scott Briggs <scott(dot)br(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Naming conventions |
| Date: | 2012-05-25 01:21:30 |
| Message-ID: | 20120525012130.GA25444@momjian.us |
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On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:08:03AM +0100, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 15/05/2012 22:50, Scott Briggs wrote:
> > So this is purely anecdotal but I'm curious, what's with all the
> > different naming conventions? There's psql (for database
> > connections), pgsql (used for some dirs like /usr/pgsql-9.1 and this
> > mailing list), postgres (user and other references), and postgresql
> > (startup scripts).
Uh, the original Berkeley project name was postgres, pgsql is used as a
short-hand for PostgreSQL, and psql is short for 'PostgreSQL SQL
Monitor'.
> ... and don't forget (maybe oddest of all) libpq! :-)
libpq originally supported Postgres QUEL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages
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