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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 14:11:36 +0000
From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
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> 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...

                      - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart				lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California