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Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?

Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>

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From: "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: David Lloyd-Jones <icomm5@attcanada.ca>, Wim Ceulemans <Wim.Ceulemans@nice.be>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>, pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 2000-08-21T21:01:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
At 5:16 PM -0300 8/21/00, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>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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