Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?
От | The Hermit Hacker |
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Тема | Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"? |
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Msg-id | Pine.BSF.4.21.0008220017200.801-100000@thelab.hub.org обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"? (Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>) |
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Re: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Joe Brenner wrote: > > The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Jan Wieck wrote: > > > > > The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > > > > > what's wrong wth "Post-Gres-QL"? > > > > > > > > I find it soooo simple to pronounce *shrug* > > > > > > Mee too. And I'm not sure if anybody pronounces PG the same > > > way. Is it PeeGee or PiG (in which case we'd have the wrong > > > animal in our logo). > > > > Actually, the one that gets me is those that refer to it as Postgres > > ... postgres was a project out of Berkeley way back in the 80's, early > > 90's ... hell, it was based on a PostQuel language ... this ain't > > postgres, its only based on it :( > > Personally, I say P-G-Sequel or Post-Grease-S-Q-L. > > And I have to say that "postgresql" has one of the worst > names of any software I've ever encountered. I'm entirely > in sympathy with the "suit" who suggested calling it "PG". > > I would go further and say that in the near future when some milestone > is reached (say, the addition of outer joins?) it might be a good idea > to mark the occasion with a name change of some sort. I don't think so ... we changed the name 4+ years ago, and, quite frankly, have worked for 4+ years at building an identity around that ... ppl know what PostgreSQL is, and what it represents ... could you imagine someone changing Apache, or Linux, or Oracle? I really don't see what is so hard about pronouncing Post-Gres-QL ... *shrug*
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