Re: New mug design - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Tommy Gildseth
Subject Re: New mug design
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Msg-id 4B161577.1080701@usit.uio.no
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In response to Re: New mug design  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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Greg Stark wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> It could be:
>>
>>        START TRANSACTION:
>
> I don't feel these make it better. The point of the pun is to have
> something which looks natural and not out of place but which also
> reads as an english sentence telling people they should use Postgres.
> START TRANSACTION is imho a compatibility syntax we have to ease
> migration from other systems and neither reads naturally as an
> postgresish sql command, nor does it have a double-meaning unless it's
> saying that people should buy a license or support contract.
>
> An argument could be made for BEGIN WORK -- but even that seems out of
> place to me.


Doesn't work always begin with a coffee?

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Tommy Gildseth

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