Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL) - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)
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In response to Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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- --On Monday, September 03, 2007 12:39:28 -0400 Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:

> Bruce Momjian escribió:
>> Oh, one more thing.  I think it is illustrative to look at the areas we
>> _didn't_ change when we went from "Postgres95" to "PostgreSQL":  the
>> super-user name and the backend binary name.  Those were kept as
>> "postgres", and I remember no questions about why those are "postgres".
>
> Well, that's easy: those correspond to "postgresql" truncated to 8 chars ;-)

Actually, on FreeBSD, super user is pgsql, not postgres ...

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