Re: Disaster! - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Disaster!
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Msg-id 4015B00C.3020008@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: Disaster!  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
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> Just for the record, the Canaveral you are thinking about is derived
> from the spanish word "Cañaveral", which is a place where "cañas" grow
> (canes or stems, according to my dictionary -- some sort of vegetal
> living form anyway).  I suppose Cape Kennedy was filled with those
> plants and that's what the name comes from.
> 
> I dunno if Chris' machine's name derives from that or not; Merriam
> Webster does not list any other meaning for that word.

All our server machines are named after launch sites/space centres.  It 
might have been a bit of a mistake, since we're starting to run out of 
names now, and the Japanese names are just too much of a mouthful :)

Chris



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