Re: The name of the game - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

> Not at all. For a start, the project can make it clear that "Postgres"
> is a perfectly acceptable alternative to "PostgreSQL", and switch
> from encouraging Postgres instead of PostgreSQL, while keeping the
> ugly one around as a perpetual synonym. The fact that it is still
> causing problems ten years later indicates that this is not a problem
> that is going away easily. Practically everyone already calls it
> Postgres anyway, even among those of us who can pronounce it
> correctly. :) Why not bite the bullet at the ten-year mark and change
> to the correct name? Otherwise, Tom may post an email in 2016 about
> how the 1996 decision was still the single worst mistake the project
> has ever made in the last 20 years...

Well there are a lot of reasons back and forth. The only thing changing
the name to postgres does is simplify the name. Here are the problems
with PostgreSQL:

Cons for PostgreSQL:
(Yes I am aware of the Trademark, but it is invalid at this point)

1. Long domain name
2. PostgreSQL, Inc. and the perception that "they" are postgresql
(although that is very minute these days.) I do still run into it.
3. Difficult to say
4. PostgreSQL.Org is registered to Hub not the development group
5. Changing the name will likely alienate a long time member and co0-founder

Pros for PostgreSQL:

1. The press knows us as that
2. Everyone complains about the name, but everyone knows it
3. It has been that way for 10 years
4. Everyone calls it postgres anyway, so who cares?

Problems with Postgres:

1. Postgresintl.com (Dave Cramer)
2. Postgresinc.com (CMD)
3. PervasivePostgres.com (Pervasive)

Pros for Postgres:

1. Short domain name
2. Goes back to our roots (kind of)
3. Easier to say
4. Domain name is registered to the development group

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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