From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: First mention option for Postgres
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:47:57 +0200
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Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> is quite common to see something like this:
>
> PostgreSQL hereafter referred to as Postgres

This is usually because the first thing is very long and the second is 
an obvious abbreviation.  But that does not apply in this case.

Changing all subsequent mentions to Postgres would effectively change 
the visible project name to Postgres or at least give undue promotion 
of Postgres over PostgreSQL, both of which was rejected, and while 
keeping everything around it as PostgreSQL, thus creating even more 
confusion.

Any sort of proposal that relies on all users of the affected document 
to start by reading and fully grasping the very first sentence will not 
work.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/