PostgreSQL, Postgre and Apple

Started by Mike Mascariover 22 years ago3 messagesgeneral
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#1Mike Mascari
mascarm@mascari.com

Apparently the Postgres lineage is sufficiently obfuscated to cause
people to think that the correct pronunciation/shorthand of PostgreSQL
is 'Postgre' and not 'Postgres'. Note the last line in the "What's New
in this Version" paragraph:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/postgresql.html

Perhaps all introductory material, press releases, etc. should begin like:

PostgreSQL, descendant of Postgres, is a sophisticated
Object-Relational DBMS...blah blah...

Mike Mascari
mascarm@mascari.com

#2Arturo P�rez
fred@noplace.org
In reply to: Mike Mascari (#1)
Re: PostgreSQL, Postgre and Apple

In article <3FACE196.9050203@mascari.com>,
mascarm@mascari.com (Mike Mascari) wrote:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/postgresql.html

Who can get them to upgrade their PostgreSQL to something a bit better
than 7.2.3?

#3Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Mike Mascari (#1)
Re: PostgreSQL, Postgre and Apple

Mike Mascari wrote:

Apparently the Postgres lineage is sufficiently obfuscated to cause
people to think that the correct pronunciation/shorthand of PostgreSQL
is 'Postgre' and not 'Postgres'. Note the last line in the "What's New
in this Version" paragraph:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/postgresql.html

Perhaps all introductory material, press releases, etc. should begin like:

PostgreSQL, descendant of Postgres, is a sophisticated
Object-Relational DBMS...blah blah...

That is a good idea. I just call it Postgres when I give a talk.
PostgreSQL is too hard to say over and over again.

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