Re: Using Postgres as an alias

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Derek Rodner <derek(dot)rodner(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Using Postgres as an alias
Date: 2007-09-27 16:10:24
Message-ID: 46FBD5F0.1020904@commandprompt.com
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> Hello Bruce
>>
>> I really unlike this game about change the name. If you get 100%
>> support then situation is simple, but you hasn't it. I use PostgreSQL,
>> Postgres and I doesn't any strong benefit with change of name.
>> Devrim's argument about renaming all packages is really strong for me.
>>
>> I agree so official documentation have to use only name PostgreSQL. Is
>> technical documentation not articles. And again I don't see any
>> benefit. Currently Postgres is well know synonym for PostgreSQL and
>> there isn't necessary push it into documentation. Please stop it.
>
> We don't require 100% agreement on anything becuase it is hard to get
> anything done. We are looking for general agreement, and I think we are
> trying to get there.
>

We had general agreement. We modified the FAQ.

Joshua D. Drake

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