Re: What do do about Object-Relational label, was Help me improve the 9.2 release announcement!

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com>, Rob Napier <rob(at)doitonce(dot)net(dot)au>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What do do about Object-Relational label, was Help me improve the 9.2 release announcement!
Date: 2012-08-15 20:51:54
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>>> I think we should call Postgres a multi-model database.
> "NewSQL". ;-)

YeSQL.

More seriously, I too think that "object-relational" is not descriptive
of what PostgreSQL has to offer. Extensible relational would be more
accurate, and I like "Multi-Model" better, even when that sounds a
little like "roll your own, we don't care that much".

Regards,
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