Re: [GENERAL] Postgres vs commercial products

From: Herouth Maoz <herouth(at)oumail(dot)openu(dot)ac(dot)il>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres vs commercial products
Date: 1998-07-26 11:34:49
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At 21:12 +0300 on 22/7/98, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> University Ingres was first, then commercial Ingres was a split-off.
> PostgreSQL is based on University Ingres.

Which also explains the name... Remember the old lesson in data structures
about pre-order, in-order and post-order traversal of binary trees?

Well, if you have an in-gres, then you can also have a pre-gres and a
post-gres. Pre-gres would imply that it is older, less advanced than
ingres. Hence Postgres.

QED :-)

Herouth

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