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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, David G Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>
Date: 2016-06-17T17:35:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Merlin Moncure wrote:
>
>> Ugliness is a highly subjective qualifier.  OTOH, Backwards
>> compatibility, at least when the checks are properly written :-), is a
>> very objective benefit.
>
> This is the argument that made us kept the PostgreSQL name instead of
> renaming back to Postgres.  I'm not a fan of it.

I, on the other hand, am a big fan of backward-compatibility.

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Robert Haas
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