From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Derek Rodner <derek(dot)rodner(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Using Postgres as an alias |
Date: | 2007-09-26 21:42:06 |
Message-ID: | 46FAD22E.4000107@commandprompt.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> But without such changes the alias is only in the FAQ and will not be
>>> widely used.
>> I'm not sure if this has been thought through to the end. If we make
>> the point that PostgreSQL can also be called Postgres, this does not
>> prevent anyone from calling it Postgre or any other forms that we might
>> not like. It might in fact make people think that it has various names
>> and you can call it whatever you want.
>
> Well, they are already calling it "Postgre" without our help, so I see
> us giving them a clear alternative to PostgreSQL as helping avoid
> "Postgre".
>
> But in the end, they can continue calling us whatever they want and we
> can't stop them.
Then why are we bothering trying?
Joshua D. Drake
>
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