Re: 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Mark Mielke wrote:
>> MS SQL, MySQL, SQLite - do they have advocacy problems due to the SQL in their name? I think it is the opposite. SQL in the name almost grants legitimacy to them as products. Dropping the SQL has the potential to increase confusion. What is a Postgres? :-)

> Something that comes after black, but before white.

Yeah. As best I can tell, most newbies think that PostgreSQL means
Postgre-SQL --- they're not too sure what "Postgre" is, but they guess
it must be the specific name of the product. And that annoys those of
us who would rather they pronounced it "Postgres". But in terms of
recognizability of the product it's not a liability. The business about
pronunciation is a red herring. It's just as unclear whether MySQL is
to be pronounced my-se-quel or my-ess-cue-ell, but how many people have
you heard claiming that's a lousy name?

regards, tom lane