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Re: Dropping postgres as a whole.



On Friday 28 September 2007 13:18, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:13:47AM -0400, Brian Hurt wrote:
> > Given the length of this thread, I vote for "Digres".
>
> Except then it'll regularly get misspelled as Digress.  And
> pronounced Dee'-gray.
>
> I think we should call it Gerwuffle.  Like, "Yeah, go install that
> Gerwuffle over there, and twiddle the thingy, and you'll be set to
> go."
>
> Or, of course, we can do what certain other parties with previous
> renaming problems did.  We can be The Database Formerly Known as
> Postgres.  Then when someone complains about confusion with the
> PostQUEL-using version of the code, we can just become The Database.
> That oughta clear up any confusion, eh?
>

Then CMD could be "The" The Database Company. 

-- 
Robert Treat
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