Thread: What means Postgres?
Just for fun and interrest. What means Postgres? Where and why this name was born? Daniel
Its a takeoff of ingres, the ORDBMS (Object-Relational Database Management System) postgres is based on...
The origins date to 1977 at UC Berkeley.
The origins date to 1977 at UC Berkeley.
On 4/19/05, Daniel Schuchardt <daniel_schuchardt@web.de> wrote:
Just for fun and interrest.
What means Postgres? Where and why this name was born?
Daniel
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:24:22PM +0200, Daniel Schuchardt wrote: > > What means Postgres? Where and why this name was born? See "A Brief History of PostgreSQL" in the PostgreSQL documentation and some of the documents it links to: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/history.html According to "The design of POSTGRES" by Stonebreaker and Rowe, POSTGRES means "POST inGRES" (the successor to INGRES). Various other sources say that INGRES means "INteractive Graphics (and) REtrieval System." -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
Or, according to Babelfish, if "Postgres" is a Spanish word, it translates to "poststoneware" in English. Nonsense of course, but I thought it was funny. On 4/19/05, Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:24:22PM +0200, Daniel Schuchardt wrote: > > > > What means Postgres? Where and why this name was born? > > See "A Brief History of PostgreSQL" in the PostgreSQL documentation > and some of the documents it links to: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/history.html > > According to "The design of POSTGRES" by Stonebreaker and Rowe, > POSTGRES means "POST inGRES" (the successor to INGRES). Various > other sources say that INGRES means "INteractive Graphics (and) > REtrieval System." > > -- > Michael Fuhr > http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend >
Michael Fuhr schrieb: >According to "The design of POSTGRES" by Stonebreaker and Rowe, >POSTGRES means "POST inGRES" (the successor to INGRES). Various >other sources say that INGRES means "INteractive Graphics (and) >REtrieval System." > Ah, this is what i searched. I read http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/history.html but there it is only clear that Postgres is based in Ingres. But i also don't know what Ingres means. now I know ;-) Daniel
Ironic too, if we think of the name "Stonebreaker" -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Ian Harding Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:02 AM To: Michael Fuhr Cc: Daniel Schuchardt; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] What means Postgres? Or, according to Babelfish, if "Postgres" is a Spanish word, it translates to "poststoneware" in English. Nonsense of course, but I thought it was funny. On 4/19/05, Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:24:22PM +0200, Daniel Schuchardt wrote: > > > > What means Postgres? Where and why this name was born? > > See "A Brief History of PostgreSQL" in the PostgreSQL documentation > and some of the documents it links to: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/history.html > > According to "The design of POSTGRES" by Stonebreaker and Rowe, > POSTGRES means "POST inGRES" (the successor to INGRES). Various > other sources say that INGRES means "INteractive Graphics (and) > REtrieval System." > > -- > Michael Fuhr > http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
In article <d43bfc$1h54$1@news.hub.org>, Daniel Schuchardt <daniel_schuchardt@web.de> wrote: % but there it is only clear that Postgres is based in Ingres. But i also % don't know what Ingres means. Ingres was a Spanish painter. Not every name has to mean something. -- Patrick TJ McPhee North York Canada ptjm@interlog.com
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 03:03 +0000, Patrick TJ McPhee wrote: > In article <d43bfc$1h54$1@news.hub.org>, > Daniel Schuchardt <daniel_schuchardt@web.de> wrote: > > % but there it is only clear that Postgres is based in Ingres. But i also > % don't know what Ingres means. > > Ingres was a Spanish painter. Not every name has to mean something. Spanish? I always thought he was a French painter. Best Regards, Simon Riggs
Le mercredi 20 avril 2005 à 17:12 +0100, Simon Riggs a écrit : > > Ingres was a Spanish painter. Not every name has to mean something. > > Spanish? I always thought he was a French painter. You can't be good in history of art and database systems. Oh wait a minute... =:-D Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres naquit à Montauban le 29 août 1780 Nice town, good wine, wonderful food. Great rugby team... Cheers Tony
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 03:03 +0000, Patrick TJ McPhee wrote:
>> In article <d43bfc$1h54$1@news.hub.org>,
>> Daniel Schuchardt <daniel_schuchardt@web.de> wrote:
>>
>> % but there it is only clear that Postgres is based in Ingres. But i also
>> % don't know what Ingres means.
>>
>> Ingres was a Spanish painter. Not every name has to mean something.
>
> Spanish? I always thought he was a French painter.
He was:
http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Art/Ingres/Ingres.shtml
And its pronounced: {ang'-gruh}
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On Apr 21, 2005, at 1:28, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > He was: > > http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Art/Ingres/Ingres.shtml > > And its pronounced: {ang'-gruh} Could we get Bruce to record an MP3 for the site? Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com