| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov> |
| Cc: | David Lloyd-Jones <icomm5(at)attcanada(dot)ca>, Wim Ceulemans <Wim(dot)Ceulemans(at)nice(dot)be>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"? |
| Date: | 2000-08-21 20:16:55 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0008211716021.801-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> At 7:48 PM -0300 8/20/00, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >what's wrong wth "Post-Gres-QL"?
> >
> >I find it soooo simple to pronounce *shrug*
> >
> >On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
> >
> > > I'm putting on my suits-type suit for just a moment.
> > >
> > > In order to Conquer The Universe(tm) why don't we just call it "PG"?
> > >
>
> IMNSHO the "QL" are silent and you pronounce it Postgres. I consider
> the SQL query language to be merely a (major) feature added during
> the evolution of the system.
as stated in another email, it is not pronounced Postgres ... postgres was
a whole different beast based on a completely different query language
... if you refer to Postgres, you are, IMHO, refering to the only
Postgres 4.2 which was the grand-daddy to what its evolved into ...
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