Re: where the name "postgresql" really originated - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Eric Cholet
Subject Re: where the name "postgresql" really originated
Date
Msg-id 430346426.1013515058@[192.168.1.14]
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In response to where the name "postgresql" really originated  (will trillich <will@serensoft.com>)
Responses Re: where the name "postgresql" really originated
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--On mardi 12 février 2002 01:18 -0600 will trillich <will@serensoft.com>
wrote:

> and the name postgres is from post-ingres, which stood for
> "INteractive Graphics and REtrieval System". the acronym is a
> bit off ("ingres" instead of "igrs" or "igars") but there it is.

I'll wager the acronym's author was fond of the famous painter
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/ingres/

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Eric Cholet


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