Re: The name of the game (was Re: postgre linkage with non-postgre db) - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: The name of the game (was Re: postgre linkage with non-postgre db)
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Msg-id 20060713040957.GA23926@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to The name of the game (was Re: postgre linkage with non-postgre db)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: The name of the game (was Re: postgre linkage with non-postgre db)  ("Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej.groups@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:42:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:39:05PM +0300, Petronenko D.S. wrote:
> >> Can i get data in postgre from non-postgre db?
>
> > The name is PostgreSQL or Postgres, not postgre.
>
> It might help to explain that the pronunciation is "post-gres" or
> "post-gres-cue-ell", not "post-gray-something".

The FAQ link I included gives the correct pronunciation and has an
MP3 of somebody saying it; I suppose I could have quoted the FAQ
item in addition to posting the link.

> I heard people making this same mistake in presentations at this
> past weekend's Postgres Anniversary Conference :-(  Arguably,
> the 1996 decision to call it PostgreSQL instead of reverting to
> plain Postgres was the single worst mistake this project ever made.
> It seems far too late to change now, though.

Too bad :-(

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Michael Fuhr

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