Re: I am being interviewed by OReilly

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Ian Harding wrote:

> It is not intuitive. It is like pronouncing MySQL "mice -Q -L"
>
> >>> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> 07/05/02 06:05AM >>>
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > >> At some point, we may have to modify our name and start at 1.0 again.
> >
> > > Ya, that's it ... we've only spent, what, 8 years now making 'PostgreSQL'
> > > known, so let's change the name *just* so that we can start at 1.0 and
> > > face a new challenge of getting ppl to recognize the name?
> >
> > I've heard a number of people opine that we should go back to just plain
> > 'Postgres', which is pronounceable by the uninitiate, and besides which
>
> I can never figure this out ... what is so difficult about 'Postgres-Q-L'?

From my point of view ... its not that it difficult to pronounce, its just
too much work for ppl to bother correcting, so they propogate the
incorrect name ... it wouldn't be a problem if ppl took the two minutes to
teach ppl instead of just letting it slip ...