Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?
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Msg-id 4081.966916296@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
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The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> I don't think so ... we changed the name 4+ years ago, and, quite frankly,
> have worked for 4+ years at building an identity around that ... ppl know
> what PostgreSQL is, and what it represents ... could you imagine someone
> changing Apache, or Linux, or Oracle?  I really don't see what is so hard
> about pronouncing Post-Gres-QL ... *shrug*

The name is certainly ugly, but it's got history behind it: it gives
appropriate credit to those who went before us.  (Don't forget that
the roots of this project go back twenty-odd years.)  There's unlikely
to be much support around here for changing the name, no matter what
alternative is offered.

FWIW, I say "post-gres-cue-ell", same as Marc.
        regards, tom lane


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