I'm impressed, I'd say a lot of projects couldn't have handled this so nicely
They are not the prime example I would use for DOTADIW.
Puts me in mind of something I've seen done in Redis, and in the OSX (really NeXT) CoreFoundation container classes. In both, you instantiate an abstract data-structure based on worst-case time-space guarantees you want from its API. Then, the implementation actually instantiates it as one of several underlying concrete classes, usually starting with one that wins for low content sizes just because of fewer dereferences needed (e.g. a "ziplist" in Redis); and then migrates the content to a different underlying concrete container transparently when content reaches a certain size.
In both cases, you're giving the user a cleaner abstraction that they can think less about, but you're accomplishing it by making the computer itself do far more internal book-keeping, and creating a much more heavily-engineered design.
Color me impressed as well.
Except the name is a bit clunky and hard to write ;)
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That's what they said in 1996. Then they said it again in 2006. In 2026 when its interwoven in all sorts of AI systems and still causing confusion, they will be looking back thinking why didn't they fix it back in 2017 when they still could. "Now" is always the right time, it's never too late.
are both very good, short, and difficult to confuse with another project or product
i think psql refer specifically to the command line tool of pgsql
I'll take PostgreSQL's name (which I consider clever) any day over some name completely devoid of originality or thoughtfulness, such as most of the names Microsoft uses for its software.
Let's see how many iterations we'll need for people to actually notice what was pointed out here ;)
"He lives in Helsinki with his second wife Anna and daughter Maria (after whom MariaDB was named), and has a daughter My (after whom MySQL was named)[14] and a son Max (giving the name for MaxDB) from his first marriage" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius
Besides, Widenius is Swedish speaking (just like Linus Thorvalds and about 10% of the people of Finland) and the name "My" was more or less invented by the also Swedish speaking Finnish author Tove Jansson in her books about the Moomins.
Although wikipedia claims it to be a short form of Mary or Maria, which I seriously doubt.
Anyway, Finnish has not that much to do with the name, I think that it allegedly was Tove Janssons uncle - a professor in mathematics, that suggested the name based on the mathematical symbol and Greek letter μ pronounced in Swedish. It might even be vaguely similar to how it was pronounced in ancient Greek :-)
Besides, I think that "My" in Finnish would be spelled "Myy" since just about the only simple thing with the Finnish language is that the vowel length is indicated by the number of characters.
Maybe Monty should upload an .au file somewhere saying "Hello, this is Monty Widenius, and I pronounce MySQL as MySQL"!
Three of them being: Postgre Postgreql PoststgreSQL
Edit: did not see the typo at first though the word seemed longer than usual...
More than that, within PoststgreSQL I get the sense that while there are serious discussions, all parties try to understand alternative positions and resolve conflicts instead of letting them brew.