Re: Naming conventions

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:08:03AM +0100, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 15/05/2012 22:50, Scott Briggs wrote:
> > So this is purely anecdotal but I'm curious, what's with all the
> > different naming conventions?  There's psql (for database
> > connections), pgsql (used for some dirs like /usr/pgsql-9.1 and this
> > mailing list), postgres (user and other references), and postgresql
> > (startup scripts).

Uh, the original Berkeley project name was postgres, pgsql is used as a
short-hand for PostgreSQL, and psql is short for 'PostgreSQL SQL
Monitor'.

> ... and don't forget (maybe oddest of all) libpq! :-)

libpq originally supported Postgres QUEL:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages

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