Re: First mention option for Postgres

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: First mention option for Postgres
Date: 2007-10-26 21:47:57
Message-ID: 200710262347.58330.peter_e@gmx.net
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> is quite common to see something like this:
>
> PostgreSQL hereafter referred to as Postgres

This is usually because the first thing is very long and the second is
an obvious abbreviation. But that does not apply in this case.

Changing all subsequent mentions to Postgres would effectively change
the visible project name to Postgres or at least give undue promotion
of Postgres over PostgreSQL, both of which was rejected, and while
keeping everything around it as PostgreSQL, thus creating even more
confusion.

Any sort of proposal that relies on all users of the affected document
to start by reading and fully grasping the very first sentence will not
work.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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