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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Dan Mahoney (Gushi) <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Quick questions about postgres name?
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:17:03 -0400
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"Dan Mahoney (Gushi)" <[email protected]> writes:
> It makes mention of the original professor who spearheaded the project 
> under a DARPA grant, but it would probably do well to know where the name 
> came from.

You should read Joe Hellerstein's recollections [1].  But tl;dr: the
origin of the name is the old INGRES database system; Postgres was
then named Post-inGres.  There are also some references to PostQUEL
referring to the ancient QUEL (QUEry Language) project [2].

			regards, tom lane

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01973
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages

			regards, tom lane

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