Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)

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- --On Saturday, September 01, 2007 18:34:49 -0400 Jan Wieck
<JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
wrote:

> Do you have any clue how many countless hours of useless discussion this name
> has cost us already? Unproductive hours that community members could
> otherwise have spent doing something useful. And I guarantee you, this
> nonsense will continue as long as the community as a whole is clinging to the
> situation as it is, driven by the fear factor you and others are using to
> encourage resisting change.

Yet you are *still* driven to fuel the debate, even though *three* foreign
language user groups, including probably our *largest* community of users
(Tatsuo and JPUG) have explicitly stated that they do *not* want to see the
name change ...

... wouldn't patch review to get 8.3 out the door be a much more productive use
of your time? Like, is anyone saying you *can't* use Postgres as a suitable
name when talking about it?

... its funny how the chief argument for change (difficult to pronounce)
doesn't seem to affect either the Japanese, French or Italian communities ...
in fact, I'd almost say that the whole drive is being pushed by "da English",
or those that would derive an immediate marketing (and, at the same time,
financial) benefit to seeing such a change come to pass (which, again, tend to
be "da English") ...

And of course, nobody who is pushing for this are even thinking of the myriad
of projects out there that actually *use* the PostgreSQL name in some form or
another, in either product name, or marketing materials ... but, of course,
that doesn't affect you, cause its not *your* money being flushed down the
drain ...

PostgreSQL is the *formal name*, while Postgres is the *trade name* ... call it
whichever you want, people will know what you are talking about ... get over it.

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