Re: Naming conventions

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:49:18AM +0100, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 25/05/2012 02:21, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:08:03AM +0100, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> >> On 15/05/2012 22:50, Scott Briggs wrote:
> >>> So this is purely anecdotal but I'm curious, what's with all the
> >>> different naming conventions? There's psql (for database
> >>> connections), pgsql (used for some dirs like /usr/pgsql-9.1 and this
> >>> mailing list), postgres (user and other references), and postgresql
> >>> (startup scripts).
> >
> > Uh, the original Berkeley project name was postgres, pgsql is used as a
> > short-hand for PostgreSQL, and psql is short for 'PostgreSQL SQL
> > Monitor'.
> >
> >> ... and don't forget (maybe oddest of all) libpq! :-)
> >
> > libpq originally supported Postgres QUEL:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages
> >
>
> Good to know all this... it might be worth adding it to the website or
> the wiki for the benefit of us blow-ins. :-)

Added a small mention to our docs in the history section that libpq is
named after POSTQUEL. Applied patch attached.

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