Re: Change the name - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Change the name
Date
Msg-id 20070926132507.GI5584@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Change the name  ("Shashank Tripathi" <shashank.tripathi@gmail.com>)
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Shashank Tripathi escribió:

> I've heard (third-hand, I admit) that Postgre (without the S) would
> please people in Latin America, so if you're working with
> Brazil-returned Japanese, then I could see where you're coming from.
> But we have on our team a Venezuelan and he actually prefers Postgres
> because, in his words, "it doesn't leave the word hanging and sounds
> more like a word".

Just to confirm: in spanish, people use "Postgre" only because it's what
looks like the name when you strip the SQL part.  But "Postgres" sounds
a lot more like a real word.

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