Why we lost Uber as a user

Re:Why we lost Uber as a user by craigkerstiens on Monday August 01, 2016 @12:34PM (#12203765)

A small bit of history from Tom Lane one of the biggest contributors to the project "Arguably, the 1996 decision to call it PostgreSQL instead of reverting to plain Postgres was the single worst mistake this project ever made."

- https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]...

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Re:Why we lost Uber as a user by phaed on Monday August 01, 2016 @01:19PM (#12204182)

> It seems too late to change it now

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.

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Re:Why we lost Uber as a user by rabidrat on Monday August 01, 2016 @02:38PM (#12204797)

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

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Re:Why we lost Uber as a user by cpeterso on Monday August 01, 2016 @05:35PM (#12206213)

And the name "Postgres" was an extension of "Ingres":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_(database)

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