From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> |
Cc: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: I am being interviewed by OReilly |
Date: | 2002-07-12 03:22:01 |
Message-ID: | 200207120322.g6C3M1707921@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Lamar Owen dijo:
>
> > On Wednesday 10 July 2002 09:26 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > (I personally voted for 'tigres' at the time we chose PostgreSQL.)
> >
> > As in the river?
>
> I don't think so. The river is actually called "Tigris" (that's the
> spanish version, and the version that generates more results in Google,
> althought I admit that the english transliteration may be different).
>
> Tigres is the spanish plural for "tiger", and of course it keeps the
> play on "-gres" while suggesting some kind of power (and speed?). But I
> think Bruce should be actually better informed than me as to what was
> the origin of the word suggestion in the first place.
Tigres (female tiger) was suggested because it is the only common *gres
word we could think of.
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