From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: FWD: [ADMIN] pg_dump error
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:38:37 -0400
Message-ID: <87fyhevxki.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com> (raw)
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Quoth gbarosio@gmail.com ("Guido Barosio"):
> Where does the "postgress" word comes from? I get mad when I read the double ss.
> Progress Software ?! It's not that famous / big / popular.
"Postgres" was a successor project to "University Ingres."
So s/In/Post/g is the source.
There isn't any material amount of common code between the two
database projects, but they were started by the same professor...
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