The Biggest Mistake Postgres Ever Made

Posted by zdw on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @06:46PM
from the craigkerstiens.com dept.

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2018/10/30/postgres-biggest-mistake/

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Re:The Biggest Mistake Postgres Ever Made by ksec on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:53AM (#18343971)

Why not just use back the name Postgres? And drop the SQL? IBM DB2 and Oracle springs to mind as two widely known SQL DB without SQL in its name.

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Re:The Biggest Mistake Postgres Ever Made by smt88 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @01:27PM (#18347620)

The abbreviation pgsql is immortalized in lots of other places, so reverting to Postgres might make those more confusing. Not sure what else would be affected though.

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Re:The Biggest Mistake Postgres Ever Made by paulrpotts on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:25PM (#18342418)

I always pronounced it like "post-grease squeal" and no one ever corrected me so I just assumed that was canon.

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Re:The Biggest Mistake Postgres Ever Made by mkj on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @10:24PM (#18342876)

Postgresickle has a nice ring to it.

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Re:The Biggest Mistake Postgres Ever Made by arc2 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:28AM (#18343891)

Never heard anyone calling it postgre. But again, some people pronouns SQL as 'sequel'

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Re:The Biggest Mistake Postgres Ever Made by kilo_bravo_3 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:22PM (#18347033)

I pronounce SQL as 'sequel' because IBM's System R was the first SQL implementation and its query language implementation was called 'SEQUEL' for "Structured English Query Language".

No amount of mental gymnastics by following implementations, and whatever motivations they have (a desire to distance themselves from big blue or avoid trademark disputes) will erase that unassailable fact from history.

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/chamberlin/sequel-1974....

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