Re: Using Postgres as an alias

Devrim,

> I still cannot understand why we spend our energy on such a thing.

I completely agree with you.

However if some people have difficulties to pronounce 'PostgreSQL',
I will accept an alias in documents, 'PostgreSQL also known as Postgres'.

It is acceptable for me.

2007/9/26, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 06:11 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > In an attempt to get "Postgres" more widely used, I propose changing
> > "PostgreSQL" to "Postgres" in the documentation when there is more
> > than one mention of "PostgreSQL" in the same paragraph. The same
> > could be done with the FAQ.
> >
> > Objections?
>
> I still cannot understand why we spend our energy on such a thing.
>
> I strongly object. I don't want to see Postgres in any of our
> documentation.
>
> As the lead RPM packager, I will *never* ever rename PostgreSQL to
> Postgres in any of my packages, documentation, etc. unless we change our
> official name someday (which I hope it won't happen any time)
>
> From my point of view, I cannot spend time to rename the packages from
> postgresql to postgres (I cannot think about the upgrade problems...)
>
> Regards,
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