Re:Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)
by rattray on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @02:56PM
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Renaming would be even worse!
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Seems to me that they could safely rename to Postgres without much downside.
Among other potential issues, this would make it much harder to search for information related to the database. Starting out, it'd always make sense to google for eg "postgres ilike", but for new features you'd have to search for eg "NewNameSQL kindalike" (assuming a new ILIKE replacement called KINDALIKE comes along in pg15 aka newname3).
Even years in to the rename, newcomers to NewNameSQL would need to be told that it used to be called Postgres and that they should look for things related to that too.
Tools and code that refer to Postgres would all have to change their names, including those developed internally, open-source, closed-source, and no-longer-maintained. Not all would, and some would change the name and functionality at the same time.
It'd be chaos.