| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(dot)wheeler(at)pgexperts(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: New PGXN Extension site |
| Date: | 2010-06-16 17:30:03 |
| Message-ID: | 1276709403.25660.106.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com |
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On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 13:22 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I actually like PGXN. PGXN is marketable. Yeah that may not be what
> > -hackers are after but if I stand up in front of a Fortune 500 company
> > and say, "We have PGXN" it sounds a heck of a lot better that PGAN.
>
> I think the attraction of PGAN is that people have some hope of guessing
> what it means (CPAN/PGAN), and because C and G look similar, there is
> even more an association, e.g. swap C and P, change C to G, and viola.
>
> The attraction of PGXN is that it looks like PGXS.
Again, to hackers :). I am looking at this differently. If I stand up
and say,
"PostgreSQL has PGXN, the PostgreSQL Extension Network"
Versus
"PostgreSQL has PGAN, P can that Can, I am Pee gannning." What?
Anyway, a name is a name. We are PostgreSQL after all.
Joshua D. Drake
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