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

Bruce Momjian escribió:
> Oh, one more thing.  I think it is illustrative to look at the areas we
> _didn't_ change when we went from "Postgres95" to "PostgreSQL":  the
> super-user name and the backend binary name.  Those were kept as
> "postgres", and I remember no questions about why those are "postgres".

Well, that's easy: those correspond to "postgresql" truncated to 8 chars ;-)

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