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From: Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
To: Dan Mahoney (Gushi) <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Quick questions about postgres name?
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:16:20 +0200
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Hi

út 23. 9. 2025 v 6:07 odesílatel Dan Mahoney (Gushi) <[email protected]>
napsal:

> Hey there folks,
>
> The manual contains a "Brief History" of postgres and notes that the name
> Postgres was retained as an official name after Postgres95 added official
> SQL support, and because 95 wouldn't stand the test of time.
>
> 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.
>
> If there's somewhere where this should be suggested, let me know.
>
> (Wikipedia has some of this history --
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_(database))
>

I wrote an article about PostgreSQL history
https://postgres.cz/wiki/Historie_projektu_PostgreSQL

It is in Czech language, but google translator almost works for translation
from Czech to English.

There is a list of used literature



> -Dan
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