| From: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
| Cc: | Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Disaster! |
| Date: | 2004-01-27 00:25:48 |
| Message-ID: | 4015B00C.3020008@familyhealth.com.au |
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> Just for the record, the Canaveral you are thinking about is derived
> from the spanish word "Cañaveral", which is a place where "cañas" grow
> (canes or stems, according to my dictionary -- some sort of vegetal
> living form anyway). I suppose Cape Kennedy was filled with those
> plants and that's what the name comes from.
>
> I dunno if Chris' machine's name derives from that or not; Merriam
> Webster does not list any other meaning for that word.
All our server machines are named after launch sites/space centres. It
might have been a bit of a mistake, since we're starting to run out of
names now, and the Japanese names are just too much of a mouthful :)
Chris
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