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

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0008211716021.801-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?  ("Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>)
Responses Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?  ("Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>)
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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 ...




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