Re: [HACKERS] New man pages

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Cc: "[Jos_] Soares" <jose(at)sferacarta(dot)com>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] New man pages
Date: 1999-08-09 14:45:11
Message-ID: 199908091445.KAA01007@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > There's only a little thing that I would like to recall your attention;
> > I see whenever the name Postgres instead of
> > PostgreSQL. Is there a reason to continue to call it Postgres in the
> > docs ?
>
> I have chosen to use "Postgres" within the docs, as a shorter (and
> pronouncable ;) form of our product. "PostgreSQL" appears in all
> titles and introductory material. I have considered the "SQL" part of
> the "PostgreSQL" as sort of a version or branch, like "OpenIngres" or
> "Windows 2000", and a bit cumbersome in the body of the docs.
>
> But that was a choice which can always be reconsidered, we're just a
> "sed" away from a different name...

I vote for PostgreSQL.

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