Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes: > > Remove mention of the Berkeley origins of the alias "Postgres" --- > > seems unnecessary to mention in the FAQ, per discussion on IRC. > > This doesn't seem like an improvement in the least. It makes it > appear that Postgres is just a randomly chosen abbreviation that > has no particular historical standing compared to, say, Postgre. > The previous text made it perfectly clear *why* that shortening > is preferred over others.
OK, you the second person to say that so I re-added it. > Why are such politically touchy decisions being taken in an anonymous, > unarchived forum like IRC, anyway? Especially when what *was* > being publicly discussed was an entirely different change? > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2008-04/msg00001.php > > (Not that I like JD's proposed change better, but at least he > made it in a reasonably well-read forum.) I everything related to the alias politically charged. That is a serious problem. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-committers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-committers
