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Or, according to Babelfish, if "Postgres" is a Spanish word, it
translates to "poststoneware" in English.

Nonsense of course, but I thought it was funny.

On 4/19/05, Michael Fuhr <mike@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:24:22PM +0200, Daniel Schuchardt wrote:
> >
> > What means Postgres? Where and why this name was born?
> 
> See "A Brief History of PostgreSQL" in the PostgreSQL documentation
> and some of the documents it links to:
> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/history.html
> 
> According to "The design of POSTGRES" by Stonebreaker and Rowe,
> POSTGRES means "POST inGRES" (the successor to INGRES).  Various
> other sources say that INGRES means "INteractive Graphics (and)
> REtrieval System."
> 
> --
> Michael Fuhr
> http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
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