Re: pgsql_fdw, FDW for PostgreSQL server - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Could we name this "postgresql_fdw" instead? �We already have several
>> ${productname}_fdw out there, and I don't want to get in the business of
>> having to guess variant spellings.

> If you don't like variant spellings, having anything to do with
> PostgreSQL, aka Postgres, and usually discussed on the pgsql-* mailing
> lists, is probably a bad idea.

[ snicker ]  But still, Peter has a point: pgsql is not a name for the
product, it's at best an abbreviation.  We aren't calling the other
thing orcl_fdw or ora_fdw.

I think either postgres_fdw or postgresql_fdw would be fine.
        regards, tom lane