Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?
Date
Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0008211714020.801-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?  ("David Lloyd-Jones" <icomm5@attcanada.ca>)
Responses Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Jan Wieck wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
> > what's wrong wth "Post-Gres-QL"?
> >
> > I find it soooo simple to pronounce *shrug*
> 
>     Mee  too.  And I'm not sure if anybody pronounces PG the same
>     way.  Is it PeeGee or PiG (in which case we'd have the  wrong
>     animal in our logo).

Actually, the one that gets me is those that refer to it as Postgres
... postgres was a project out of Berkeley way back in the 80's, early
90's ... hell, it was based on a PostQuel language ... this ain't
postgres, its only based on it :(



> > 
> Jan
> 
> >
> > On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
> >
> > > I'm putting on my suits-type suit for just a moment.
> > >
> > > In order to Conquer The Universe(tm) why don't we just call it "PG"?
> > >
> > >                                                       -dlj.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
> > Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> > primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
> >
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
> 

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 



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