Eric Cholet wrote:
> --On mardi 12 f?vrier 2002 01:18 -0600 will trillich <will@serensoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I'll wager the acronym's author was fond of the famous painter
> Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/ingres/
Maybe. I saw a painting by Ingres somewhere, I think it was in Spain,
and it sort of looked strange --- the name "Ingres" under a painting.
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