where the name "postgresql" really originated - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:10:23AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Karel posted a good summary awhile back:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-11/msg01255.php

aha!

<quoting>
Ingres      - 1982 -- 1985
            - Michael Stonebraker and Eugene Wong at UC-Berkeley
            - Ingres = Interactive Graphics and Retrieval System
            - original developed on PDP-11/45
            - original query language was QUEL

Postgres    - 1985(?) - 1994
            - based on Ingres
            - start with idea make Ingres more OO
            - the father was again Stonebraker
</quoting>

i knew there was a good reason to like postgresql -- its
ancestry includes the pdp-11! :)

and the name postgres is from post-ingres, which stood for
"INteractive Graphics and REtrieval System". the acronym is a
bit off ("ingres" instead of "igrs" or "igars") but there it is.

and thus we have the etymology of the name "postgres" and by
extension, "postgresql".

:)

thanks!

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