Re: postgresql -- what's in a name?

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Dominic J(dot) Eidson" <sauron(at)the-infinite(dot)org>, will trillich <will(at)serensoft(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postgresql -- what's in a name?
Date: 2002-02-11 14:37:26
Message-ID: 20020211103632.E59276-100000@mail1.hub.org
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Postgres95 was SQL, if I'm not mistaken.

Correct ... it was Jolly/Andrew's graduate project to take it from
PostQuel->SQL, and they named it Postgres95 as a joke revolving around
Windows95 at the time ..

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