Re: What means Postgres?

From: Benjamin Holmberg <benjamin(dot)holmberg(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What means Postgres?
Date: 2005-04-19 15:33:56
Message-ID: bb9c4f0f05041908339fda976@mail.gmail.com
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Its a takeoff of ingres, the ORDBMS (Object-Relational Database Management
System) postgres is based on...
The origins date to 1977 at UC Berkeley.

On 4/19/05, Daniel Schuchardt <daniel_schuchardt(at)web(dot)de> wrote:
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> Just for fun and interrest.
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> What means Postgres? Where and why this name was born?
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> Daniel
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