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Re: What do do about Object-Relational label, was Help me improve the 9.2 release announcement! - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Dimitri Fontaine
Subject Re: What do do about Object-Relational label, was Help me improve the 9.2 release announcement!
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In response to Re: What do do about Object-Relational label, was Help me improve the 9.2 release announcement!  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>>> I think we should call Postgres a multi-model database.
> "NewSQL".   ;-)

YeSQL.

More seriously, I too think that "object-relational" is not descriptive
of what PostgreSQL has to offer. Extensible relational would be more
accurate, and I like "Multi-Model" better, even when that sounds a
little like "roll your own, we don't care that much".

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine                                        06 63 07 10 78
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