Re: Changing the name - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Changing the name
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Msg-id 201001230424.o0N4O2u07327@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Changing the name  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>)
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Yea, the original logic was that adding the QL to Postgres allowed us to
> > be identified as a database.
>
> Actually, PostgreSQL emphasized the switch from the PostQUEL query
> language that was in the original database to the SQL query language the
> Andrew/Jolly based their Graduate work on ... they went with Postgres95 as
> a joke / play on Windows95 ... we changed teh 95 -> QL and capitalized the
> 'S' to emphasize that we were now an SQL based RDBMS ...

Oh, yea, I had forgotten that.  Thanks.

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