Re: Describing Postgres as "object-relational" on the home page

On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 01:10:47PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't want to start bikeshedding here but maybe
> the answer is simple.
> 
> The PG home page calls PG "object-relational".  I question
> whether this is useful.  Unlike in the 90's, nobody is
> really interested any more in object-oriented-everything
> and the typical person reading the home page probably
> does not know what an object-relational db is anyway.
> 
> It may be better to just say "relational".

I guess if I had to name this with no precedence, I would call it
relational/extendable, but that seems even worse that what we have.  I
do think we need something to explain that Postgres is more than simply
relational since our extendibility, along with our open source
development, are what make us popular.

I agree "object" isn't a great word, and as I heard was just used in the
1990's because object languages were the hot topic.

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