| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL) |
| Date: | 2007-08-29 20:44:12 |
| Message-ID: | 20070829204412.GS7911@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Ron Mayer wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > There _will_ be confusion, work
> > for package maintainers, nasty upgrade problems with oldbies who say,
> > "Oh, I don't want Postgres; I want the SQL-engine one," and edits to
> > the manual.
>
> For those people, perhaps we rename "postmaster" to "postSQLmaster"
> so they don't get too confused and can still see that SQL's in there
> somewhere.
Actually, the daemon got renamed -- it's not called "postmaster"
anymore, nowadays (8.3) the name is "postgres". The old name still
works though.
--
Alvaro Herrera Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/
"Y eso te lo doy firmado con mis lágrimas" (Fiebre del Loco)
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