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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