On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> At 7:48 PM -0300 8/20/00, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >what's wrong wth "Post-Gres-QL"?
> >
> >I find it soooo simple to pronounce *shrug*
> >
> >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"?
> > >
>
> IMNSHO the "QL" are silent and you pronounce it Postgres. I consider
> the SQL query language to be merely a (major) feature added during
> the evolution of the system.
as stated in another email, it is not pronounced Postgres ... postgres was
a whole different beast based on a completely different query language
... if you refer to Postgres, you are, IMHO, refering to the only
Postgres 4.2 which was the grand-daddy to what its evolved into ...