Re: Dropping postgres as a whole.

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Brian Hurt <bhurt(at)janestcapital(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Dropping postgres as a whole.
Date: 2007-09-29 23:34:55
Message-ID: 46FEE11F.7080103@Yahoo.com
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On 9/28/2007 11:56 AM, Robert Treat wrote:
> On Friday 28 September 2007 11:28, David Fetter wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:13:47AM -0400, Brian Hurt wrote:
>> > Josh Berkus wrote:
>> > >JD,
>> > >
>> > >>Why don't we just stop this whole PostgreSQL->Postgres->Postgre
>> > >>junk and just say, PostgreSQL, also referred to as PG.
>> > >
>> > >I think PG is trademarked by the Motion Picture Association of
>> > >America. And you *know* you don't want to tangle with their
>> > >attorneys.
>> > >
>> > >;-)
>> > >
>> > >I vote for "UltimateDB".
>> >
>> > Given the length of this thread, I vote for "Digres".
>>
>> +1 ;)
>>
>
> Sorry, I have to disagree. I don't think it is clear what the Digres project
> would be. Now if you went with DigreSQL, then I'm on board.

And it takes how long until we see "Digre"? I think we cannot use
anything that ends with an s.

What about Postgrep? It says something about searching for rows even
without DB or SQL, and for people coming from the most popular open
source database, SQL is a necessary inconvenience to search over flat
files in a concurrent environment anyway.

Jan

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