Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > Woah, let's be very clear here. There was zero agreement to promote > > > the name postgres. There was agreement to state that Postgres was an > > > acceptable form of the word PostgreSQL. > > > > > > Which I do still agree with, but that is far from "promoting". > > > > Here is a thread where I propose the "promoting" idea and general > > agreement on it: > > > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2007-09/msg00257.php > > > > and here is where I think you are agreeing to do such promotion in the > > FAQ, at least: > > > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2007-09/msg00279.php > > No. That was me stating that the current FAQ stating that Postgres was > an acceptable form of PostgreSQL was enough. Which I do still agree > with.
OK, I misunderstood then. I was asking where to promote it and you were saying just the FAQ which I thought meant promote usage in the FAQ. Sorry. > I have stated that *if* we were going to make wholesale documentation > changes that we should do it in the form of PostgreSQL, hereafter known > as Postgres... > > I don't like it but I believe it would be a fair compromise. Yea, I think so. If we make that change we could go until 8.4 beta and then see how we are doing with making an easily-prounced alias name. We might need to make no further changes, or we might want to change it back for some reason. I will give another 1-2 days for feedback on the "pattern" usage issue. So far I think everyone so far has said they like just a first mention of PostgreSQL in the document and then Postgres in the rest of the document _if_ we are going to do that. Then I will start a new thread to ask about actually doing that change. I thought the second-in-paragraph style was minimal because it is like, e.g. "Bill Cohen was caught stealing. Cohen was seen under the bushes on Cobbs Lane.". Or with Coke, "Coca-cola is expense. Coke is also bad for you". But it seems people don't like that usage in practice. (FYI, I see some "Postgres" mentions have gotten in the 8.3 release notes already from Tom. I will have to adjust those once we make a final decision, but you can see how it looks now.) -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
