Re: I am being interviewed by OReilly

It is not intuitive. It is like pronouncing MySQL "mice -Q -L"

>>> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> 07/05/02 06:05AM >>>
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> >> At some point, we may have to modify our name and start at 1.0 again.
>
> > Ya, that's it ... we've only spent, what, 8 years now making 'PostgreSQL'
> > known, so let's change the name *just* so that we can start at 1.0 and
> > face a new challenge of getting ppl to recognize the name?
>
> I've heard a number of people opine that we should go back to just plain
> 'Postgres', which is pronounceable by the uninitiate, and besides which

I can never figure this out ... what is so difficult about 'Postgres-Q-L'?

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