AW: AW: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: AW: AW: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?
Date: 2000-08-28 10:18:30
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA687963368060@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> Since I don't see Chevrolet changing their name to Chevy just because
> everyone calls it that, or Christopher Chris, Marcus Marc, Robert Bob,
> etc. why do you feel it necessary to change PostgreSQL to Postgres?

I like this interpretation of short name vs long name, but Marc sais we
(referring to PostgreSQL by short name) are "evil".

I think what we want is, that you easily find our webpage/product if you
only know the short name.

Andreas

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