Re: What means Postgres?

From: Daniel Schuchardt <daniel_schuchardt(at)web(dot)de>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What means Postgres?
Date: 2005-04-19 16:26:44
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Michael Fuhr schrieb:

>According to "The design of POSTGRES" by Stonebreaker and Rowe,
>POSTGRES means "POST inGRES" (the successor to INGRES). Various
>other sources say that INGRES means "INteractive Graphics (and)
>REtrieval System."
>

Ah, this is what i searched.

I read

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/history.html

but there it is only clear that Postgres is based in Ingres. But i also don't know what Ingres means.

now I know
;-)

Daniel

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