Re: where the name "postgresql" really originated

From: Eric Cholet <cholet(at)logilune(dot)com>
To: will trillich <will(at)serensoft(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: where the name "postgresql" really originated
Date: 2002-02-12 10:57:38
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--On mardi 12 février 2002 01:18 -0600 will trillich <will(at)serensoft(dot)com>
wrote:

> and the name postgres is from post-ingres, which stood for
> "INteractive Graphics and REtrieval System". the acronym is a
> bit off ("ingres" instead of "igrs" or "igars") but there it is.

I'll wager the acronym's author was fond of the famous painter
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/ingres/

--
Eric Cholet

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