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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject name Re: Dropping postgres as a whole.
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Msg-id 20070927181340.GB28083@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Dropping postgres as a whole.  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: name Re: Dropping postgres as a whole.  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Re: name Re: Dropping postgres as a whole.  (Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake escribió:

> Interesting point but I don't think that would be a problem in general.
> Mainly because as good as we are... we are not Proctor & Gamble ;). Nor
> are we even in the same sector (business/financial etc...).
>
> I like Pg but I would also not be opposed to pgsql, which is extremely
> common.

I think we're trying to find a name for saying out aloud.  Both "pg" and
"pgsql" are mostly used in writing.

I respect the idea of not renaming PostgreSQL to Postgres immediately,
just like I support the idea of eventually doing it.  However, the idea
of dropping Postgres as a name/alias altogether seems blind and dumb.
Blind, because it ignores the fact that many people already use that
name.  Dumb, because there is a lot of support (granted, not consensus)
for actually using it as the official name.

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