Re: Naming conventions

On 25/05/2012 02:21, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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
>

Good to know all this... it might be worth adding it to the website or
the wiki for the benefit of us blow-ins. :-)

Ray.


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