Thread: Looking for information on our elephant

Hi,

I'm Looking for information on our elephant: especially how/why we
chose elephant as our mascot.

According to:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Logo

The discussion was back to 1997 on the hackers list. Unfortunately the
official archive for 1997 was lost. Mine seems to be gone too. Any
information will be appreciated.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp

Oh great! Thank you Oleg!
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp

> Tatsuo,
> 
> I have  emails even from 1995 !  You can see that historical message here:
> http://www.pgsql.ru/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1238939
> 
> Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL logo.
> *Author:* yang( at )sjuphil( dot )sju( dot )edu
> *Date:* 1997-04-03 20:36:33
> *Subject:*<http://www.pgsql.ru/db/mw/index.html?word=Re%3A%20%5BHACKERS%5D%20PostgreSQL%20logo.>Re:
> [HACKERS] PostgreSQL logo.
> 
> Some other ideas:
> 
> derivative: a sword (derivative of the Dragon book cover -- Postgres as a tool)
> illustrative: a bowl of Alphabet Soup, with letters spelling out POSTGRESQL
> obscure: a revolver/hit man (Grosse Pt is an anagram of Postgres, and an
> abbreviation of the title of the new John Cusack movie)
> 
> but if you want an animal-based logo, how about some sort of elephant?
> After all, as the Agatha Christie title read, elephants can remember ...
> 
> David Yangyang@sju.edu
> 
> 
> 
> Oleg
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm Looking for information on our elephant: especially how/why we
>> chose elephant as our mascot.
>>
>> According to:
>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Logo
>>
>> The discussion was back to 1997 on the hackers list. Unfortunately the
>> official archive for 1997 was lost. Mine seems to be gone too. Any
>> information will be appreciated.
>> --
>> Tatsuo Ishii
>> SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
>> English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
>> Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp
>>
>>
>> --
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>> To make changes to your subscription:
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>>

On 09/19/2013 04:16 PM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm Looking for information on our elephant: especially how/why we
> chose elephant as our mascot.

What I've been told:

Our first logo was one Jan designed, which was a elephant in a diamond.While the idea was nice, it looked terrible, so
whenMarc and Greg
 
launched PostreSQL Inc. they hired an actual desinger who created the
blue elephant we have now.  This design was then contributed to the
community.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

Oleg,

Unfortunately the archives seem to miss attached files. I love to see
the attached files because they are logo images.  Any idea?
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp

> Tatsuo,
> 
> I have  emails even from 1995 !  You can see that historical message here:
> http://www.pgsql.ru/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1238939
> 
> Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL logo.
> *Author:* yang( at )sjuphil( dot )sju( dot )edu
> *Date:* 1997-04-03 20:36:33
> *Subject:*<http://www.pgsql.ru/db/mw/index.html?word=Re%3A%20%5BHACKERS%5D%20PostgreSQL%20logo.>Re:
> [HACKERS] PostgreSQL logo.
> 
> Some other ideas:
> 
> derivative: a sword (derivative of the Dragon book cover -- Postgres as a tool)
> illustrative: a bowl of Alphabet Soup, with letters spelling out POSTGRESQL
> obscure: a revolver/hit man (Grosse Pt is an anagram of Postgres, and an
> abbreviation of the title of the new John Cusack movie)
> 
> but if you want an animal-based logo, how about some sort of elephant?
> After all, as the Agatha Christie title read, elephants can remember ...
> 
> David Yangyang@sju.edu
> 
> 
> 
> Oleg
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm Looking for information on our elephant: especially how/why we
>> chose elephant as our mascot.
>>
>> According to:
>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Logo
>>
>> The discussion was back to 1997 on the hackers list. Unfortunately the
>> official archive for 1997 was lost. Mine seems to be gone too. Any
>> information will be appreciated.
>> --
>> Tatsuo Ishii
>> SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
>> English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
>> Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
>> To make changes to your subscription:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
>>

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:40:06AM +0400, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> I found in my archives several logos. The oldest one comes from postgres95
> time.  I recall that logo with cheetah was made by Bruce (?)

No, I don't remember who did that cheetah.

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