Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL) - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

Ron Mayer wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > There _will_ be confusion, work
> > for package maintainers, nasty upgrade problems with oldbies who say,
> > "Oh, I don't want Postgres; I want the SQL-engine one," and edits to
> > the manual.
>
> For those people, perhaps we rename "postmaster" to "postSQLmaster"
> so they don't get too confused and can still see that SQL's in there
> somewhere.

Actually, the daemon got renamed -- it's not called "postmaster"
anymore, nowadays (8.3) the name is "postgres".  The old name still
works though.

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Alvaro Herrera                          Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/
"Y eso te lo doy firmado con mis lágrimas" (Fiebre del Loco)