Michael Fuhr schrieb:
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."
Ah, this is what i searched.
I read
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/history.html
but there it is only clear that Postgres is based in Ingres. But i also don't know what Ingres means.
now I know ;-)
Daniel
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