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OT: Why elefant?

From
"Daniel Seichter"
Date:
Hello,

for my new website I design at the moment, I will explain, why the elefant is choosen to
identify postgreSQL, but I couldn't find anything.
Has anyone in this list a public text, why the elefant is used or an e-mail address of a person
from postgreSQL, who can give me an answer?

Thank you very much

Daniel

Re: OT: Why elefant?

From
Bruno Wolff III
Date:
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 16:30:32 +0200,
  Daniel Seichter <daniel@dseichter.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> for my new website I design at the moment, I will explain, why the elefant is choosen to
> identify postgreSQL, but I couldn't find anything.
> Has anyone in this list a public text, why the elefant is used or an e-mail address of a person
> from postgreSQL, who can give me an answer?

My guess would be because folklore says an elephant never forgets.

Re: OT: Why elefant?

From
"Matthew D. Fuller"
Date:
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 10:36:47AM -0500 I heard the voice of
Bruno Wolff III, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> My guess would be because folklore says an elephant never forgets.

Yeah!  Didn't you ever use those Elephant-branded 5.25" floppy disks?  8-)


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Re: OT: Why elefant?

From
"A.M."
Date:
The mascot used to be an ostrich but it sued for royalties.

> why the elefant is choosen to
> identify postgreSQL, but I couldn't find anything.

Re: OT: Why elefant?

From
"Daniel Seichter"
Date:
Hello
> I've thought that it has to do with memory.  You know - an elephant
> never forgets, and a good database never forgets!  Sorry no public
> text.
Thank you and all others, I thought it has deep religious roots, but when I remember me to my
last seen documentations about elephants (in german it is Elefant, so please excuse me for
the "f") they really never forget where they where born, where there is water,.....

Nice, nice nice.....

Daniel

Re: OT: Why elefant?

From
Tom Lane
Date:
"Daniel Seichter" <daniel@dseichter.de> writes:
>> I've thought that it has to do with memory.  You know - an elephant
>> never forgets, and a good database never forgets!  Sorry no public
>> text.
> Thank you and all others, I thought it has deep religious roots, but when I remember me to my
> last seen documentations about elephants (in german it is Elefant, so please excuse me for
> the "f") they really never forget where they where born, where there is water,.....

BTW, I always thought "elephants never forget" was just a nursery tale,
but apparently there is some scientific evidence for elephants having
long memories.  Googling turned up this for instance:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1285532.stm

            regards, tom lane

Re: OT: Why elefant?

From
Tim Ellis
Date:
On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 07:30, Daniel Seichter wrote:
> Has anyone in this list a public text, why the elefant is used or an
> e-mail address of a person from postgreSQL, who can give me an answer?

I do believe, although I cannot say why, that the elephant is used
because it's an animal that can remember things for a long, long time.

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