| From: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
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| To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: FWD: [ADMIN] pg_dump error |
| Date: | 2006-07-07 04:38:37 |
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Quoth gbarosio(at)gmail(dot)com ("Guido Barosio"):
> Where does the "postgress" word comes from? I get mad when I read the double ss.
> Progress Software ?! It's not that famous / big / popular.
"Postgres" was a successor project to "University Ingres."
So s/In/Post/g is the source.
There isn't any material amount of common code between the two
database projects, but they were started by the same professor...
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