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name Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Dropping postgres as a whole.

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt.com>
Date: Thu Sep 27 2007 - 14:13:40 EDT


Joshua D. Drake escribió:

> Interesting point but I don't think that would be a problem in general.
> Mainly because as good as we are... we are not Proctor & Gamble ;). Nor
> are we even in the same sector (business/financial etc...).
>
> I like Pg but I would also not be opposed to pgsql, which is extremely
> common.

I think we're trying to find a name for saying out aloud. Both "pg" and "pgsql" are mostly used in writing.

I respect the idea of not renaming PostgreSQL to Postgres immediately, just like I support the idea of eventually doing it. However, the idea of dropping Postgres as a name/alias altogether seems blind and dumb. Blind, because it ignores the fact that many people already use that name. Dumb, because there is a lot of support (granted, not consensus) for actually using it as the official name.

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