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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)
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Msg-id 20070903122349.GB4998@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)  (Jim Nasby <decibel@decibel.org>)
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Jim Nasby escribió:

> Pronouncibility for English speakers is a *HUGE* problem with the current
> name. Why doesn't that exist for other languages? Because it's a foreign
> name to begin with!

Actually, it is a problem in spanish too.  Postgres even sounds like a
regular word, and is easily pronounceable; PostgreSQL is just a weird
construct and not many people know what to do with it (except mashing it
into something else for saying out loud).

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