•Re: Postgres' preferred language

Point of pedantic order: there hasn't been anything called Postgres for about 10 years. The name of the current project and product has always been PostgreSQL.

See the history of postgreSQL as one source for this information.

To put it another way, the PostgreSQL hackers are just as offended when it's called "postgres" as when we see our beloved language spelled as "PERL". Ugh. It's a big tip-o-the-clue-meter that the person is not very familiar with the project.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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Re^2: Postgres' preferred language by diotalevi (Canon) on Mar 21, 2003 at 15:49 UTC
I disagree but only partially. A few months back there was some general hand-wringing on the postgresql general list about whether PostgreSQL was pronouncable and what its frequently called. In general when written it is PostgreSQL, spoken its frequently "Post gres que ell". That doesn't stop core contributors from writing "Postgres" informally and even ocassionally "pg". So it isn't as clearly wrong as PERL vs Perl vs perl.	[reply]

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Re^2: Postgres' preferred language
by diotalevi (Canon) on Mar 21, 2003 at 15:49 UTC

I disagree but only partially. A few months back there was some general hand-wringing on the postgresql general list about whether PostgreSQL was pronouncable and what its frequently called. In general when written it is PostgreSQL, spoken its frequently "Post gres que ell". That doesn't stop core contributors from writing "Postgres" informally and even ocassionally "pg".

So it isn't as clearly wrong as PERL vs Perl vs perl.

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