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

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: What means Postgres?
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Msg-id 20050420132739.J76866@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: What means Postgres?  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: What means Postgres?  (Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>)
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Simon Riggs wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 03:03 +0000, Patrick TJ McPhee wrote:
>> In article <d43bfc$1h54$1@news.hub.org>,
>> Daniel Schuchardt  <daniel_schuchardt@web.de> wrote:
>>
>> % but there it is only clear that Postgres is based in Ingres. But i also
>> % don't know what Ingres means.
>>
>> Ingres was a Spanish painter. Not every name has to mean something.
>
> Spanish? I always thought he was a French painter.

He was:

     http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Art/Ingres/Ingres.shtml

And its pronounced: {ang'-gruh}


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