Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?

From: "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: David Lloyd-Jones <icomm5(at)attcanada(dot)ca>, Wim Ceulemans <Wim(dot)Ceulemans(at)nice(dot)be>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?
Date: 2000-08-21 21:01:32
Message-ID: v04210178b5c7491ce68c@[137.78.84.130]
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At 5:16 PM -0300 8/21/00, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
> > At 7:48 PM -0300 8/20/00, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > >what's wrong wth "Post-Gres-QL"?
> > >
> > >I find it soooo simple to pronounce *shrug*
> > >
> > >On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm putting on my suits-type suit for just a moment.
> > > >
> > > > In order to Conquer The Universe(tm) why don't we just call it "PG"?
> > > >
> >
> > IMNSHO the "QL" are silent and you pronounce it Postgres. I consider
> > the SQL query language to be merely a (major) feature added during
> > the evolution of the system.
>
>as stated in another email, it is not pronounced Postgres ... postgres was
>a whole different beast based on a completely different query language
>... if you refer to Postgres, you are, IMHO, refering to the only
>Postgres 4.2 which was the grand-daddy to what its evolved into ...

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