Re: Using Postgres as an alias - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

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Derek Rodner wrote:
> In presentations, articles, blogs, etc. Any publicly visible spot.

This is assuming the name of the project has changed. It hasn't. The
name of this project is PostgreSQL.

This whole thread stinks of... I couldn't get my way and change the name
outright so instead I will subvert my will through alternative means...

Bruce, with respect. Let's start with one thing at a time. We have
changed the FAQ.

The community "just" accepted the FAQ change, and now you want to start
this?

Let it lay.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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> Derek M. Rodner
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org <pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org>
> To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
> Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Wed Sep 26 14:23:50 2007
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Using Postgres as an alias
>
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> In an attempt to get "Postgres" more widely used, I propose changing
>>> "PostgreSQL" to "Postgres" in the documentation when there is more
>>> than one mention of "PostgreSQL" in the same paragraph.
>> I don't see why the documentation readers should be the first victims of
>> our differences about product naming.  Technical documentation is the
>> last place where you want to be ambiguous and inconsistent.  If you
>> want to introduce useless randomness, please start somewhere else.
>
> If we agree we should mention our alias "Postgres" more, where do you
> propose we do that?  I suggested the documentation and FAQ.  Do you have
> a better idea?
>


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