From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Using Postgres as an alias |
Date: | 2007-09-26 20:58:49 |
Message-ID: | 200709262058.l8QKwnO02473@momjian.us |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>> In an attempt to get "Postgres" more widely used, I propose changing
> >>> "PostgreSQL" to "Postgres" in the documentation when there is more
> >>> than one mention of "PostgreSQL" in the same paragraph.
> >> I don't see why the documentation readers should be the first victims of
> >> our differences about product naming. Technical documentation is the
> >> last place where you want to be ambiguous and inconsistent. If you
> >> want to introduce useless randomness, please start somewhere else.
> >
> > If we agree we should mention our alias "Postgres" more, where do you
> > propose we do that? I suggested the documentation and FAQ. Do you have
> > a better idea?
>
> I believe the FAQ is sufficient.
Because there seems to be agreement that the FAQ can use the alias I
have made that change and committed it. There were 7 changes in the
main FAQ and 3 in the development FAQ. You can see how you like it:
http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ.html
(Give time for the update to hit the web site.)
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