| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Santiago Zarate <santiago(at)zarate(dot)net(dot)ve>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Changing the name |
| Date: | 2010-01-23 04:14:48 |
| Message-ID: | alpine.BSF.2.00.1001230012200.19961@hub.org |
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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Yea, the original logic was that adding the QL to Postgres allowed us to
> be identified as a database.
Actually, PostgreSQL emphasized the switch from the PostQUEL query
language that was in the original database to the SQL query language the
Andrew/Jolly based their Graduate work on ... they went with Postgres95 as
a joke / play on Windows95 ... we changed teh 95 -> QL and capitalized the
'S' to emphasize that we were now an SQL based RDBMS ...
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