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Re:Why we lost Uber as a user by assface on Monday August 01, 2016 @10:53AM (#12202806)
It's called Postgres because it was the second DBMS that Stonebraker started after Ingres. So it's "post Ingres", or "post gres"
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Re:Why we lost Uber as a user by astrodust on Monday August 01, 2016 @06:44PM (#12206637)
Then they made it speak SQL, so it was called PostgreSQL, which some might confuse as "Postgre SQL".
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