On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:49:18AM +0100, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 25/05/2012 02:21, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:08:03AM +0100, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> >> On 15/05/2012 22:50, Scott Briggs wrote:
> >>> So this is purely anecdotal but I'm curious, what's with all the
> >>> different naming conventions? There's psql (for database
> >>> connections), pgsql (used for some dirs like /usr/pgsql-9.1 and this
> >>> mailing list), postgres (user and other references), and postgresql
> >>> (startup scripts).
> >
> > Uh, the original Berkeley project name was postgres, pgsql is used as a
> > short-hand for PostgreSQL, and psql is short for 'PostgreSQL SQL
> > Monitor'.
> >
> >> ... and don't forget (maybe oddest of all) libpq! :-)
> >
> > libpq originally supported Postgres QUEL:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages
> >
>
> Good to know all this... it might be worth adding it to the website or
> the wiki for the benefit of us blow-ins. :-)
Added a small mention to our docs in the history section that libpq is
named after POSTQUEL. Applied patch attached.
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EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/history.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/history.sgml
new file mode 100644
index 9bd5c22..a7f4b70
*** a/doc/src/sgml/history.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/history.sgml
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*** 114,120 ****
<listitem>
<para>
The query language PostQUEL was replaced with
! <acronym>SQL</acronym> (implemented in the server). Subqueries
were not supported until <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
(see below), but they could be imitated in
<productname>Postgres95</productname> with user-defined
--- 114,122 ----
<listitem>
<para>
The query language PostQUEL was replaced with
! <acronym>SQL</acronym> (implemented in the server). (Interface
! library <link linkend="libpq">libpq</link> was named after PostQUEL.)
! Subqueries
were not supported until <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
(see below), but they could be imitated in
<productname>Postgres95</productname> with user-defined
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