From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Selena Deckelmann <sdeckelmann(at)chrisking(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Advocacy List <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Dropping postgres as a whole. |
Date: | 2007-09-27 17:14:07 |
Message-ID: | 7FA149EFB3BF9473A83434A3@ganymede.hub.org |
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- --On Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:11:34 -0700 Selena Deckelmann
<sdeckelmann(at)chrisking(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 27, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was just talking with one of my developers (Alexey) and he said, why
>> not just use Pg. Which is an interesting point. Consider that
>> Volkswagen
>> is properly known as Volkswagen but commonly (and most of the time)
>> referred to as VW.
>>
>> Why don't we just stop this whole PostgreSQL->Postgres->Postgre
>> junk and
>> just say, PostgreSQL, also referred to as PG.
>>
>> Heck, I know plenty of people that just say PG, or PGSQL, myself
>> included.
>
> +1 I like it.
>
> From a design standpoint, 'Pg' is nicer. I know we're not there yet, but
> just sayin'.
Just to clarify, I don't believe JD is advocating *changing the name* to Pg,
only using Pg as the common name vs Postgres ...
Right JD? :)
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