Re: [HACKERS] New man pages - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] New man pages
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Msg-id 199908091445.KAA01007@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] New man pages  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>)
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Re: [HACKERS] New man pages
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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...

I vote for PostgreSQL.

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