Re: Looking for information on our elephant

Oleg,

Unfortunately the archives seem to miss attached files. I love to see
the attached files because they are logo images.  Any idea?

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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp

> Tatsuo,
>
> I have  emails even from 1995 !  You can see that historical message here:
> http://www.pgsql.ru/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1238939
>
> Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL logo.

> *Author:* yang( at )sjuphil( dot )sju( dot )edu
> *Date:* 1997-04-03 20:36:33

> *Subject:*<http://www.pgsql.ru/db/mw/index.html?word=Re%3A%20%5BHACKERS%5D%20PostgreSQL%20logo.>Re:

> [HACKERS] PostgreSQL logo.
>
> Some other ideas:
>
> derivative: a sword (derivative of the Dragon book cover -- Postgres as a tool)
> illustrative: a bowl of Alphabet Soup, with letters spelling out POSTGRESQL
> obscure: a revolver/hit man (Grosse Pt is an anagram of Postgres, and an
> abbreviation of the title of the new John Cusack movie)
>
> but if you want an animal-based logo, how about some sort of elephant?
> After all, as the Agatha Christie title read, elephants can remember ...
>
> David Yangyang@sju.edu
>
>
>
> Oleg
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm Looking for information on our elephant: especially how/why we
>> chose elephant as our mascot.
>>
>> According to:
>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Logo
>>
>> The discussion was back to 1997 on the hackers list. Unfortunately the
>> official archive for 1997 was lost. Mine seems to be gone too. Any
>> information will be appreciated.
>> --
>> Tatsuo Ishii
>> SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
>> English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
>> Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp
>>
>>
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