| From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Ron Mayer" <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Change the name |
| Date: | 2007-09-05 21:51:08 |
| Message-ID: | 36e682920709051451y1a3bd5f6x4888ed0832349c2e@mail.gmail.com |
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On 9/5/07, Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> wrote:
> Indeed - but "ps" seems like the most logical short form of PostgreSQL.
> Or when pronounced out loud "Postgres Q L", "pq" would be. Perhaps
> that's where libpq came from?
Actually, libpq is a throwback to Ingres.
Ingres has libq (otherwise known as the EQUEL runtime library) and
Postgres got libpq (the Postgres front-end library).
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