Re: Dropping postgres as a whole. - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Selena Deckelmann
Subject Re: Dropping postgres as a whole.
Date
Msg-id D88EC1E3-7379-49C1-9338-25AA6A925B20@chrisking.com
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In response to Dropping postgres as a whole.  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Dropping postgres as a whole.  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>)
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On Sep 27, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was just talking with one of my developers (Alexey) and he said, why
> not just use Pg. Which is an interesting point. Consider that
> Volkswagen
> is properly known as Volkswagen but commonly (and most of the time)
> referred to as VW.
>
> Why don't we just stop this whole PostgreSQL->Postgres->Postgre
> junk and
> just say, PostgreSQL, also referred to as PG.
>
> Heck, I know plenty of people that just say PG, or PGSQL, myself
> included.

+1 I like it.

 From a design standpoint, 'Pg' is nicer. I know we're not there yet,
but just sayin'.

-selena


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