On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:21:27AM +0100, Tommy Gildseth wrote:
> Greg Stark wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>> It could be:
>>>
>>> START TRANSACTION:
>>
>> I don't feel these make it better. The point of the pun is to have
>> something which looks natural and not out of place but which also
>> reads as an english sentence telling people they should use
>> Postgres. START TRANSACTION is imho a compatibility syntax we have
>> to ease migration from other systems and neither reads naturally as
>> an postgresish sql command, nor does it have a double-meaning
>> unless it's saying that people should buy a license or support
>> contract.
>>
>> An argument could be made for BEGIN WORK -- but even that seems out
>> of place to me.
>
> Doesn't work always begin with a coffee?
Not everywhere. Utah, for one example. China for another.
What people put in the mug is less on point than what's on it :)
Cheers,
David.
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