Re: FAQ 1.1 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jim Nasby
Subject Re: FAQ 1.1
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Msg-id 415BAF92-C53F-44F3-80D9-5FDCF7431E36@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: FAQ 1.1  (Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
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On Apr 3, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Chris Browne wrote:

> jnasby@pervasive.com (Jim Nasby) writes:
>> On Mar 31, 2006, at 4:17 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>>> Given the tendency people have to remove the capitalised bits to get
>>> 'postgre', we'd probably end up with 'ostres'
>>
>> Man I hate when people do that.
>>
>> I think we should just rename the database to 'Fred'. :)
>
> Yeah, someone at the office was asking me on the elevator about
> whether some Post-something was somehow up and coming.
>
> In retrospect, I think he was trying to pronounce Postgre, and arrived
> at something I had never heard before...

And it doesn't help when "post-something" could also mean a very
popular MTA...
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