Re: What means Postgres? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: What means Postgres?
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Msg-id 20050419155304.GA80940@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to What means Postgres?  (Daniel Schuchardt <daniel_schuchardt@web.de>)
Responses Re: What means Postgres?  (Ian Harding <harding.ian@gmail.com>)
Re: What means Postgres?  (Daniel Schuchardt <daniel_schuchardt@web.de>)
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:24:22PM +0200, Daniel Schuchardt wrote:
>
> What means Postgres? Where and why this name was born?

See "A Brief History of PostgreSQL" in the PostgreSQL documentation
and some of the documents it links to:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/history.html

According to "The design of POSTGRES" by Stonebreaker and Rowe,
POSTGRES means "POST inGRES" (the successor to INGRES).  Various
other sources say that INGRES means "INteractive Graphics (and)
REtrieval System."

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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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