Re: pgsql: Remove mention of the Berkeley origins of the alias "Postgres"

momjian@postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> Remove mention of the Berkeley origins of the alias "Postgres" ---
> seems unnecessary to mention in the FAQ, per discussion on IRC.

This doesn't seem like an improvement in the least.  It makes it
appear that Postgres is just a randomly chosen abbreviation that
has no particular historical standing compared to, say, Postgre.
The previous text made it perfectly clear *why* that shortening
is preferred over others.

Why are such politically touchy decisions being taken in an anonymous,
unarchived forum like IRC, anyway?  Especially when what *was*
being publicly discussed was an entirely different change?
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2008-04/msg00001.php

(Not that I like JD's proposed change better, but at least he
made it in a reasonably well-read forum.)

            regards, tom lane