Ironic too, if we think of the name "Stonebreaker" -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Harding Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:02 AM To: Michael Fuhr Cc: Daniel Schuchardt; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: What means Postgres? 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/ > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
