From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: [Jos_] Soares <jose@sferacarta.com>
Cc: Postgres Hackers List <hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] New man pages
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 10:45:11 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <199908091445.KAA01007@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37AEE198.FB80A1B0@alumni.caltech.edu>
> > There's only a little thing that I would like to recall your attention;
> > I see whenever the name Postgres instead of
> > PostgreSQL. Is there a reason to continue to call it Postgres in the
> > docs ?
>
> I have chosen to use "Postgres" within the docs, as a shorter (and
> pronouncable ;) form of our product. "PostgreSQL" appears in all
> titles and introductory material. I have considered the "SQL" part of
> the "PostgreSQL" as sort of a version or branch, like "OpenIngres" or
> "Windows 2000", and a bit cumbersome in the body of the docs.
>
> But that was a choice which can always be reconsidered, we're just a
> "sed" away from a different name...
I vote for PostgreSQL.
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