On 9/23/25 05:17, Tom Lane wrote:
"Dan Mahoney (Gushi)" <postg...@gushi.org> writes:
It makes mention of the original professor who spearheaded the project
under a DARPA grant, but it would probably do well to know where the name
came from.
You should read Joe Hellerstein's recollections [1]. But tl;dr: the
origin of the name is the old INGRES database system; Postgres was
then named Post-inGres. There are also some references to PostQUEL
referring to the ancient QUEL (QUEry Language) project [2].
I remember back in school (circa 1987) in the course of data structures,
the topic of tree traversal using the 3 recursive methods : pre-order,
in-order and post-order was quite popular back then, in this spirit,
indeed, Postgres sounds like the next step of Ingres, but this is my
sole impression !
regards, tom lane
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01973
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages
regards, tom lane
