Re: The naming question WAS: Theme of this release: Performance? - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: The naming question WAS: Theme of this release: Performance?
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In response to Re: The naming question WAS: Theme of this release: Performance?  (Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>)
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Stefan Kaltenbrunner a écrit :
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> All,
>>
>>> It is still the case that changing the name would involve a lot of tedious
>>> effort and hunting down references.  Also, we don't have nearly as good
>>> control of the various postgres.* domains as we do of postgresql.*.
>>> (notably, postgres.net belongs to some unknown individual who refuses to
>>> sell it to me).
>> Update on this; Aaron got in touch with me and I think we can work something
>> out *if* we decide to change the name.
>
> there is not only postgres.net but country level domains and stuff all
> over the place ...
>
> I don't think that name change is buying us anything except _TONS_ of
> work for us and other projects (like distributions) and no real gain (I
> for myself find neither postgresql nor postgres and more or less
> difficult to spell). Imho that makes about as much sense as discussing
> if we should use an african or an asian elephant as the logo because
> someone finds the smaller/larger ears are nicer to look at ...
>

+1


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