Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Treat
On Saturday 23 January 2010 16:19:11 Andrew Dunstan wrote:
 Robert Treat wrote:
  I'm not saying there aren't
  downsides, but having a name the community can unify on is a definite
  plus, and imho that name has to be Postgres.

 Translation: we'll only be unified if everyone agrees with me.


Wow Andrew, that's kind of a dick thing to say.  This really isn't about 
agreeing with me except maybe that I've watched the issue for years and I 
think I have come to the most reasonable conclusion. If there is a more 
reasonable conclusion, I'm happy to switch to that, but of course we'd be back 
to people agreeing with me...

 Sorry, that is quite clearly not going to happen.


People said that about win32 and people said that about git; the former has 
happened, the latter hasn't, but I suspect it will. Given the problems with 
the name PostgreSQL aren't just going to magically disappear, eventually I 
believe a name change will be made (though I've no doubt people will try to 
dig themselves in deeper in opposition to it in the mean time). 

 Can we please get on with actually making a better product? Raising this
 issue again is simply an unnecessary distraction.


A strong and growing community is arguably the most important feature of any 
software project; to that extent this *is* the work of making a better 
product. 

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-24 Thread Andrew Dunstan



Robert Treat wrote:

On Saturday 23 January 2010 16:19:11 Andrew Dunstan wrote:
  

Robert Treat wrote:


I'm not saying there aren't
downsides, but having a name the community can unify on is a definite
plus, and imho that name has to be Postgres.
  

Translation: we'll only be unified if everyone agrees with me.




Wow Andrew, that's kind of a dick thing to say.  This really isn't about 
agreeing with me except maybe that I've watched the issue for years and I 
think I have come to the most reasonable conclusion. If there is a more 
reasonable conclusion, I'm happy to switch to that, but of course we'd be back 
to people agreeing with me...


  



I'm sorry if I offended you, it seems to be my week for that. But that's 
how what you said came across to me.


I don't actually have a horse in this race, I can live with either name. 
But there was a discussion on it not long ago (in which I did not take 
part) and a decision was made. I think bringing it up again now is 
unfortunate, and a serious distraction. And clearly there are reasonable 
counter-arguments to your position, as evidenced by this most recent 
discussion.


I honestly do not believe that the future of the project depends on the 
outcome of this issue to any significant extent.


cheers

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-24 Thread Andrew Dunstan


I wrote:


I don't actually have a horse in this race, I can live with either name.



In the interests of full disclosure, I should point out that I in fact 
do have a horse in the race, although I wasn't thinking of it when I 
wrote the above. As an officer in a corporation with PostgreSQL in its 
name I'd be more than annoyed if the project name were changed under us.


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-23 Thread Greg Stark
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
  It's just as unclear whether MySQL is
 to be pronounced my-se-quel or my-ess-cue-ell, but how many people have
 you heard claiming that's a lousy name?

Actually the original promounciation was mee-ess-cue-ell, My is
monty's daughter's name and is pronounced like that. People generally
pronounced it my though so they just made that the official
pronounciation -- but they still don't approve of my-sequel.

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-23 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 23, 2010, at 3:25 AM, Greg Stark wrote:

 Actually the original promounciation was mee-ess-cue-ell, My is
 monty's daughter's name and is pronounced like that. People generally
 pronounced it my though so they just made that the official
 pronounciation -- but they still don't approve of my-sequel.

We could go with PrySQL, as in you can pry it from my cold dead fingers. Or 
if you're Finnish, you can think of it as coming before SQL.

Or maybe TrySQL, to encourage you to try it and because you can make tress 
out of it. It's greener, too.

Or perhaps OMGWTFSQL. No, wait, sorry, that's what I say when I'm working with 
MySQL.

How about PugSQL? It's kind of butch, keeps the pg part, and we could have 
a dog logo.

Or maybe we can determine that geeks are completely useless at branding and not 
touch this issue with a 10m pole.

So, 10mPoleSQL it is. Or maybe KillThisFuckingThreadSQL. Rather suggestive, 
don't you think?

Best,

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-23 Thread Boszormenyi Zoltan
David E. Wheeler írta:
 On Jan 23, 2010, at 3:25 AM, Greg Stark wrote:

   
 Actually the original promounciation was mee-ess-cue-ell, My is
 monty's daughter's name and is pronounced like that. People generally
 pronounced it my though so they just made that the official
 pronounciation -- but they still don't approve of my-sequel.
 

 We could go with PrySQL, as in you can pry it from my cold dead fingers. Or 
 if you're Finnish, you can think of it as coming before SQL.

 Or maybe TrySQL, to encourage you to try it and because you can make tress 
 out of it. It's greener, too.

 Or perhaps OMGWTFSQL. No, wait, sorry, that's what I say when I'm working 
 with MySQL.

 How about PugSQL? It's kind of butch, keeps the pg part, and we could 
 have a dog logo.
   

IIRC, Pug is a little leprechaun in Shakespeare's Midsummer night's dream.
Another logo change opportunity. :-)

 Or maybe we can determine that geeks are completely useless at branding and 
 not touch this issue with a 10m pole.

 So, 10mPoleSQL it is. Or maybe KillThisFuckingThreadSQL. Rather suggestive, 
 don't you think?

 Best,

 David
   


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-23 Thread Andrew Dunstan



Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:

How about PugSQL? It's kind of butch, keeps the pg part, and we could have 
a dog logo.
  



IIRC, Pug is a little leprechaun in Shakespeare's Midsummer night's dream.
Another logo change opportunity. :-)

  



I think you've confused Puck and Snug. See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream#Characters


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-23 Thread Robert Treat
On Friday 22 January 2010 23:44:11 Tom Lane wrote:
 David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com writes:
  On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Mark Mielke wrote:
  MS SQL, MySQL, SQLite - do they have advocacy problems due to the SQL in
  their name? I think it is the opposite. SQL in the name almost grants
  legitimacy to them as products. Dropping the SQL has the potential to
  increase confusion. What is a Postgres? :-)
 
  Something that comes after black, but before white.

 Yeah.  As best I can tell, most newbies think that PostgreSQL means
 Postgre-SQL --- they're not too sure what Postgre is, but they guess
 it must be the specific name of the product.  And that annoys those of
 us who would rather they pronounced it Postgres.  But in terms of
 recognizability of the product it's not a liability.  

Well, it clearly is a liability to have your product name be confused in 3 or 
4 different ways. I don't think it's impossible for people to not connect the 
dots that someone talking about postgrey is talking about the same thing as 
someone talking about postgres-sequel. 

 The business about
 pronunciation is a red herring.  It's just as unclear whether MySQL is
 to be pronounced my-se-quel or my-ess-cue-ell, but how many people have
 you heard claiming that's a lousy name?


The difference is that that product name is still easily searchable. Looking 
for a job? type in mysql. trying to find talent? mysql. looking for product 
support? mysql. need training? mysql.  Every one of these things (and many 
more) is made harder by the constant confusion of our product name.  

We're currently looking to hire new dba's, and we have to adjust search 
information to account for the potential use of postgres or postgresql as a 
skill (we're currently on the fence philosophically about hiring someone who 
calls it postgre). But we're lucky, because we know enough to try to account 
for these things. Consider someone new to Postgres looking for a job. Go to 
monster.com and search on postgre, postgres, or postgresql and you will get a 
different list of jobs for each keyword. 

digs a little A yes, and here are those statistics I posted a couple of 
years ago, showing site traffic into our website. 
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2007-09/msg00108.php
These are for the people who figure it out, I wonder how many people we miss 
out on because they get sidetracked trying to find out more about postgre?

You once said Arguably, the 1996 decision to call it PostgreSQL instead of 
reverting to plain Postgres was the single worst mistake this project ever 
made.  I think I would have to agree, and I can't see this issue ever going 
away as long as we stick with PostgreSQL. I'm not saying there aren't 
downsides, but having a name the community can unify on is a definite plus, and 
imho that name has to be Postgres.  

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-23 Thread Andrew Dunstan



Robert Treat wrote:
I'm not saying there aren't 
downsides, but having a name the community can unify on is a definite plus, and 
imho that name has to be Postgres.  
  


Translation: we'll only be unified if everyone agrees with me.

Sorry, that is quite clearly not going to happen.

Can we please get on with actually making a better product? Raising this 
issue again is simply an unnecessary distraction.


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
2010/1/23 Robert Treat xzi...@users.sourceforge.net:
 digs a little A yes, and here are those statistics I posted a couple of
 years ago, showing site traffic into our website.
 http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2007-09/msg00108.php
 These are for the people who figure it out, I wonder how many people we miss
 out on because they get sidetracked trying to find out more about postgre?

FYI, the figures for the past month are:
1.  postgresql  45,579  10.91%  
2.  postgres16,225  3.88%   
3.  postgre 4,901   1.17%   
4.  postgresql download 4,590   1.10%   
5.  postgresql tutorial 2,408   0.58%   
6.  pg_dump 1,755   0.42%   
7.  psql1,360   0.33%   
8.  postgresql odbc 1,022   0.24%   
9.  postgre sql 964 0.23%   
10. pg_restore  871 0.21%   

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-23 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 23, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

 FYI, the figures for the past month are:
 1.postgresql  45,579  10.91%  
 2.postgres16,225  3.88%   
 3.postgre 4,901   1.17%   
 4.postgresql download 4,590   1.10%   
 5.postgresql tutorial 2,408   0.58%   
 6.pg_dump 1,755   0.42%   
 7.psql1,360   0.33%   
 8.postgresql odbc 1,022   0.24%   
 9.postgre sql 964 0.23%   
 10.   pg_restore  871 0.21%   

Huh. No pgsql. Interesting.

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
2010/1/23 David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com:
 On Jan 23, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

 FYI, the figures for the past month are:
 1.    postgresql              45,579  10.91%
 2.    postgres                16,225  3.88%
 3.    postgre                 4,901   1.17%
 4.    postgresql download     4,590   1.10%
 5.    postgresql tutorial     2,408   0.58%
 6.    pg_dump                 1,755   0.42%
 7.    psql                    1,360   0.33%
 8.    postgresql odbc         1,022   0.24%
 9.    postgre sql             964     0.23%
 10.   pg_restore              871     0.21%

 Huh. No pgsql. Interesting.

pgsql shows up in position 31 with 0.12%.

Beaten even by copy with 0.15%.

Wel also have
17. postgress   0.16%
30. postgressql 0.12%
40. postg   0.10%
70. postgr  0.07%


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-22 Thread Andreas Joseph Krogh
On Friday 22. January 2010 01.22.09 Tom Lane wrote:
 Larry Rosenman l...@lerctr.org writes:
  On Thu, January 21, 2010 5:53 pm, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
  Care to shed some light on what features (yes, we users care about
  features) warrant this major version-bump? Is there a link somewhere?
 
  AFAIR, it was stated if Hot Standby AND Streaming Replication hit the
  tree, the release number would go to 9.0.
 
 Yeah.  The question of when do we call it 9.0 has come up multiple
 times over the past few release cycles, and when we get built-in
 replication has always been one of the more popular answers.  If HS+SR
 aren't enough to justify a major version bump, I'm not sure what would be.
 
 The other bit of rationale for this is that HS+SR are likely to induce a
 certain amount of, um, instability.  Labeling the release with a dot-oh
 version number will help to set people's expectations about that.  For
 comparison's sake, one of the main reasons for calling 8.0 8.0 was the
 native Windows port, and it certainly took a while for that to settle
 down.

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-22 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane

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 As far as I can see, there is absolutely zero reason to care about
 whether the product is called Postgres or PostgreSQL. 

Sorry, but names matter. Advocacy matters. Please take a look in 
the archives on why this is so before making such a blanket  
statement.   

 If it were called WeGrindUpTheBonesOfSmallChildrenSQL, maybe a 
 change would be worth considering. 

Actually, that would be an improvement, because at least that's 
intuitively pronounceable, if a bit long. :)

 As it is, I submit that the product name is not on in the top 
 10,000 things we should be worried about fixing   

Well, this *was* posted to -hackers and not -advocacy, but 
advocacy, mind share, and many other non-hacking-on-the-base-code things 
matter too. And frankly, our name is one of our *top* problems.  
Perhaps you've never had to explain to non-technical people how to   
pronounce it? Or sheepishly explained why we have such a lame,   
geeky sounding portmanteau? Or assured people that saying Postgres 
is perfectly fine, and that everyone says it that way anyway?

, even if there were a consensus that it were a good idea 
 (which there isn't)  

I beg to differ, the change has very wide support, including among 
members of -core. Please read the archives.

 and even if -core had not already made a decision on this point (which
 they have).

They punted, but there is no reason we can't revisit the topic. They
are certainly allowed to change their minds. :)

 What I think we SHOULD be worrying about right now is getting 9.0
 out the door, and I am 100% opposed to letting ourselves getting
 sucked into this or any other discussion which is likely to
 make that take longer than it likely already will.

What makes you think this is all a zero-sum game? You are free not to
get sucked into this discussion, but remember that this is a
volunteer project, consisting of people with many and varied skills.
There are a small handful of people who are responsible for getting 9.0
out the door. There are thousands of other people who are working on
other Postgres-related things, including, at times, advocacy.

I'll move this over to -advocacy where it belongs, along with some
more concrete discussion of how we would make the name change,
when and if it happens.

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-22 Thread Mark Mielke

On 01/22/2010 09:52 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:


Well, this *was* posted to -hackers and not -advocacy, but
advocacy, mind share, and many other non-hacking-on-the-base-code things
matter too. And frankly, our name is one of our *top* problems.
Perhaps you've never had to explain to non-technical people how to
pronounce it? Or sheepishly explained why we have such a lame,
geeky sounding portmanteau? Or assured people that saying Postgres
is perfectly fine, and that everyone says it that way anyway?
   


I do not read -advocacy, so I probably missed the important discussion 
on this subject...


I cannot see how the current name is a top problem in any priority 
scheme I care about. I like the current name, and the *infrequent* time 
the question comes up, it gives me the opportunity to summarize the 
history of PostgreSQL, and show people how PostgreSQL is a mature 
product that has earned a place in software history.


How this could be a problem? I don't understand. I do not believe people 
would choose or not choose a product based on whether they happen to 
pronounce it correctly from the start.


Most importantly, changing the name back to Postgres does not actually 
make the product better in any material way, nor does it improve 
understanding of what the product does. Having SQL in the name, makes 
it clear what the product is. We use Atlassian products, and one of the 
first complaints we get is that people don't implicitly know what 
products like Bamboo, Confluence, Crucible, FishEye, or JIRA 
do. They cannot map the products in their head because they have no 
context. Calling it PostgreSQL, makes it very clear to the uninformed 
masses where the product fits in a product map. Tell an executive of a 
company Postgres, and they would ask what is it? Tell them 
PostgreSQL, and they'll say is that like Oracle? The second is 
hugely more valuable.


I don't want to open the discussion, because I like things the way they 
are, and think the PostgreSQL developers are doing an excellent job on 
the high priority items. PostgreSQL is really one of the greatest open 
source projects out there. I love it!


I just can't see a statement like our name is one of our *top* 
problems go by uncontested. It is false in every way I can think of 
considering it. Perhaps *some* people have an issue with it. Perhaps 
these people are enough to pressure a change against the rest who care 
more about performance, reliability, and features, than a name. But, 
ultimately, the people working on the performance, reliability, and 
features, are the people that are making PostgreSQL the success that it 
is today. The name will not and should not increase adoption. Well, at 
least in my not so humble opinion.


Back to the exciting live standby features and such please! I'm very 
much looking forward to seeing them in a release. *These* features, I 
can sell from an advocacy perspective. :-)


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-22 Thread Brendan Jurd
2010/1/23 Mark Mielke m...@mark.mielke.cc:
 Calling it
 PostgreSQL, makes it very clear to the uninformed masses where the product
 fits in a product map. Tell an executive of a company Postgres, and they
 would ask what is it? Tell them PostgreSQL, and they'll say is that
 like Oracle? The second is hugely more valuable.

Holy query language, Batman!

Do you mean to tell me that the uninformed masses you interact with
have an understanding of what SQL means?

I am skeptical of this claim, but if true, you must have access to the
most spectacularly informed uninformed masses on the planet.

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-22 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
* Brendan Jurd dire...@gmail.com [100122 10:29]:
 
 Holy query language, Batman!
 
 Do you mean to tell me that the uninformed masses you interact with
 have an understanding of what SQL means?
 
 I am skeptical of this claim, but if true, you must have access to the
 most spectacularly informed uninformed masses on the planet.

I can't speak for Mark, but the uniformed masses I interact with tend
to be the guys looking for (and authorizing) solutions in small-medium
business segment...  And Microsoft has done the education for us and
automatically associated this unknown SQL  with a big database...
So despite that they have no idea what SQL actually means, or where it
came from, it's got the desired association.

So, my neck of the woods ain't necessarily yours, but...

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-22 Thread Mark Mielke

On 01/22/2010 10:57 AM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

* Brendan Jurddire...@gmail.com  [100122 10:29]:

   

Holy query language, Batman!

Do you mean to tell me that the uninformed masses you interact with
have an understanding of what SQL means?

I am skeptical of this claim, but if true, you must have access to the
most spectacularly informed uninformed masses on the planet.
 

I can't speak for Mark, but the uniformed masses I interact with tend
to be the guys looking for (and authorizing) solutions in small-medium
business segment...  And Microsoft has done the education for us and
automatically associated this unknown SQL  with a big database...
So despite that they have no idea what SQL actually means, or where it
came from, it's got the desired association.

So, my neck of the woods ain't necessarily yours, but...
   


Exactly. People know where SQL fits in the product map. They probably do 
NOT know what it stands for, but they don't really care. They pay 
professional technical people to understand the details.


How many people know what SONAR, RADAR, or SCUBA stand for? This doesn't 
seem to stop them from being able to use the word effectively.


MS SQL, MySQL, SQLite - do they have advocacy problems due to the SQL in 
their name? I think it is the opposite. SQL in the name almost grants 
legitimacy to them as products. Dropping the SQL has the potential to 
increase confusion. What is a Postgres? :-)


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-22 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Mark Mielke wrote:

 MS SQL, MySQL, SQLite - do they have advocacy problems due to the SQL in 
 their name? I think it is the opposite. SQL in the name almost grants 
 legitimacy to them as products. Dropping the SQL has the potential to 
 increase confusion. What is a Postgres? :-)

Something that comes after black, but before white.

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-22 Thread Tom Lane
David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com writes:
 On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Mark Mielke wrote:
 MS SQL, MySQL, SQLite - do they have advocacy problems due to the SQL in 
 their name? I think it is the opposite. SQL in the name almost grants 
 legitimacy to them as products. Dropping the SQL has the potential to 
 increase confusion. What is a Postgres? :-)

 Something that comes after black, but before white.

Yeah.  As best I can tell, most newbies think that PostgreSQL means
Postgre-SQL --- they're not too sure what Postgre is, but they guess
it must be the specific name of the product.  And that annoys those of
us who would rather they pronounced it Postgres.  But in terms of
recognizability of the product it's not a liability.  The business about
pronunciation is a red herring.  It's just as unclear whether MySQL is
to be pronounced my-se-quel or my-ess-cue-ell, but how many people have
you heard claiming that's a lousy name?

regards, tom lane

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-22 Thread Andrew Chernow

Tom Lane wrote:

David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com writes:

On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Mark Mielke wrote:

MS SQL, MySQL, SQLite - do they have advocacy problems due to the SQL in their 
name? I think it is the opposite. SQL in the name almost grants legitimacy to 
them as products. Dropping the SQL has the potential to increase confusion. 
What is a Postgres? :-)



Something that comes after black, but before white.


Yeah.  As best I can tell, most newbies think that PostgreSQL means
Postgre-SQL --- they're not too sure what Postgre is, but they guess
it must be the specific name of the product.  And that annoys those of
us who would rather they pronounced it Postgres.  But in terms of
recognizability of the product it's not a liability.  The business about
pronunciation is a red herring.  It's just as unclear whether MySQL is


My personal experience has shown that people not familiar with the project can't 
remember it's name (even 10 minutes after I said it).  It doesn't really roll 
off your tongue, unless you count tree nodes in your sleep.  This may have an 
affect on the project's reach.


I am not really advocating a name change, but if a different name makes 
postgresql more popular, however silly that may seem, then I am all for it. 
This is a difficult marketing decision.


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-22 Thread Pavel Stehule
2010/1/23 Andrew Chernow a...@esilo.com:
 Tom Lane wrote:

 David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com writes:

 On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Mark Mielke wrote:

 MS SQL, MySQL, SQLite - do they have advocacy problems due to the SQL in
 their name? I think it is the opposite. SQL in the name almost grants
 legitimacy to them as products. Dropping the SQL has the potential to
 increase confusion. What is a Postgres? :-)

 Something that comes after black, but before white.

 Yeah.  As best I can tell, most newbies think that PostgreSQL means
 Postgre-SQL --- they're not too sure what Postgre is, but they guess
 it must be the specific name of the product.  And that annoys those of
 us who would rather they pronounced it Postgres.  But in terms of
 recognizability of the product it's not a liability.  The business about
 pronunciation is a red herring.  It's just as unclear whether MySQL is

 My personal experience has shown that people not familiar with the project
 can't remember it's name (even 10 minutes after I said it).  It doesn't
 really roll off your tongue, unless you count tree nodes in your sleep.
  This may have an affect on the project's reach.

 I am not really advocating a name change, but if a different name makes
 postgresql more popular, however silly that may seem, then I am all for it.
 This is a difficult marketing decision.

I am not sure so different name makes postgresql more popular - it is
marketing for short-live products. If I can speak some: for Czech
language - the pronunciation of PostgreSQL in Czech isn't any problem.
PostgreSQL is mark with very good reputation - and some pople will go
from Oracle or MySQL, I'll have a better job then to explain so
Postgres is PostgreSQL.

so for me -1

Pavel


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-22 Thread Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
think also how people use SQL word , when calling ms sql server. They would 
just say 'sql server' , and to some I had to explain that the little greedy 
company didn't actually invented sql, hence it should be called ms sql 
server... 
so, -1 for dropping SQL word from me. 

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[HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Dave Page
In an attempt to pre-empt the normally drawn-out discussions about
what the next version of PostgreSQL will be numbered. the core team
have discussed the issue and following a lenghty debate lasting
literally a few minutes decided that the next release shall be

Wait for it

9.0.

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
 Wait for it

 9.0.

Yeah!!!


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Richard Huxton

On 21/01/10 09:37, Dave Page wrote:

In an attempt to pre-empt the normally drawn-out discussions about
what the next version of PostgreSQL will be numbered. the core team
have discussed the issue and following a lenghty debate lasting
literally a few minutes decided that the next release shall be

Wait for it

9.0.


You don't have a code-name. All the cool kids have code-names for their 
projects.


There - that should distract everyone from actual release-related work 
for the next week or so :-)


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Richard Huxton d...@archonet.com wrote:
 You don't have a code-name. All the cool kids have code-names for their
 projects.

 There - that should distract everyone from actual release-related work for
 the next week or so :-)

Nicely done Sir :-)



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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Thom Brown
2010/1/21 Dave Page dp...@pgadmin.org

 In an attempt to pre-empt the normally drawn-out discussions about
 what the next version of PostgreSQL will be numbered. the core team
 have discussed the issue and following a lenghty debate lasting
 literally a few minutes decided that the next release shall be

 Wait for it

 9.0.



I feel sorry for 8.5 now.  It had such high hopes of becoming a proper
version.

So, does this mean the next alpha/beta will be named 9.0 too?

Thom


Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Thom Brown thombr...@gmail.com wrote:

 I feel sorry for 8.5 now.  It had such high hopes of becoming a proper
 version.

Yeah, well - it'll be remembered. I still find occasional references
to PostgreSQL 7.5 in the pgAdmin code.

 So, does this mean the next alpha/beta will be named 9.0 too?

9.0alpha4


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane

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 9.0.

 You don't have a code-name. All the cool kids have code-names
 for their projects.

I've got one: Postgres

Better yet, how about we bite the bullet and make the name change
official. Seems like a major version bump is the right time
to do it.

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 12:26 +, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
 Better yet, how about we bite the bullet and make the name change
 official. Seems like a major version bump is the right time
 to do it. 

I thought we ended up that thread already?
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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane g...@turnstep.com wrote:

 I've got one: Postgres

 Better yet, how about we bite the bullet and make the name change
 official. Seems like a major version bump is the right time
 to do it.

Please don't start that again. It was distracting enough last time.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2007-11/msg00109.php


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Stephen Frost
* Dave Page (dp...@pgadmin.org) wrote:
 Wait for it
 
 9.0.

Sure, tell us now, after we've all already had to submit our 8.5-related
talks for PGCon... ;)

Thanks!

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Stephen Frost sfr...@snowman.net wrote:
 * Dave Page (dp...@pgadmin.org) wrote:
 Wait for it

 9.0.

 Sure, tell us now, after we've all already had to submit our 8.5-related
 talks for PGCon... ;)

What's 8.5?



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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2010-01-21 at 10:36 +, Richard Huxton wrote:
  9.0.
 
 You don't have a code-name. All the cool kids have code-names for
 their projects. 

The One That Worked



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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Dunstan



Peter Eisentraut wrote:

On tor, 2010-01-21 at 10:36 +, Richard Huxton wrote:
  

9.0.
  

You don't have a code-name. All the cool kids have code-names for
their projects. 



The One That Worked

  


Bullwinkle (This time for sure!)


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
 
 Bullwinkle (This time for sure!)
 
LOL
 
But that trick never works...
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7mmrF-4rUE
 
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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Chernow


9.0.


You don't have a code-name. All the cool kids have code-names for their 
projects.




Black Dog

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-21 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane

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 Better yet, how about we bite the bullet and make the name change
 official. Seems like a major version bump is the right time
 to do it.

 I thought we ended up that thread already?

Well, the thread may have ended, but the problem remains. Call
it the 900 pound gorilla in a room full of elephants. I know
many people are loathe to see the discussion come up again,
but as long as the project is saddled with its ugly and
unweildy official name, it has a large problem.

It's really in the best interests of the project to make the
change as soon as possible, and undo the mistake of changing
it from Postgres in the first place. Changing it to coincide
with the interest bounce we'll get from the Oracle/MySQL
situation seems a no-brainer from an advocacy perspective.

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Greg Sabino Mullane g...@turnstep.com wrote:
 
 many people are loathe to see the discussion come up again,
 but as long as the project is saddled with its ugly and
 unweildy official name, it has a large problem.
 
I don't particularly like the official stance on pronouncing it, but
other than that I see no problem.  Just pronounce the QL in
PostgreSQL the same way you do the b in subtle and have done with
it.  I'm not for changing the spelling of either one.
 
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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-21 Thread Pavel Stehule
2010/1/21 Greg Sabino Mullane g...@turnstep.com:

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 Better yet, how about we bite the bullet and make the name change
 official. Seems like a major version bump is the right time
 to do it.

 I thought we ended up that thread already?

 Well, the thread may have ended, but the problem remains. Call
 it the 900 pound gorilla in a room full of elephants. I know
 many people are loathe to see the discussion come up again,
 but as long as the project is saddled with its ugly and
 unweildy official name, it has a large problem.

it is your opinion - not my. I thing, so is nonsense returning to
closed chapters.

Regards
Pavel


 It's really in the best interests of the project to make the
 change as soon as possible, and undo the mistake of changing
 it from Postgres in the first place. Changing it to coincide
 with the interest bounce we'll get from the Oracle/MySQL
 situation seems a no-brainer from an advocacy perspective.

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-21 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Pavel Stehule pavel.steh...@gmail.com wrote:
 Better yet, how about we bite the bullet and make the name change
 official. Seems like a major version bump is the right time
 to do it.

 I thought we ended up that thread already?

 Well, the thread may have ended, but the problem remains. Call
 it the 900 pound gorilla in a room full of elephants. I know
 many people are loathe to see the discussion come up again,
 but as long as the project is saddled with its ugly and
 unweildy official name, it has a large problem.

 it is your opinion - not my. I thing, so is nonsense returning to
 closed chapters.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

As far as I can see, there is absolutely zero reason to care about
whether the product is called Postgres or PostgreSQL.  If it were
called WeGrindUpTheBonesOfSmallChildrenSQL, maybe a change would be
worth considering.  As it is, I submit that the product name is not on
in the top 10,000 things we should be worried about fixing, even if
there were a consensus that it were a good idea (which there isn't)
and even if -core had not already made a decision on this point (which
they have).  What I think we SHOULD be worrying about right now is
getting 9.0 out the door, and I am 100% opposed to letting ourselves
getting sucked into this or any other discussion which is likely to
make that take longer than it likely already will.

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-21 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Robert Haas wrote:

 As far as I can see, there is absolutely zero reason to care about
 whether the product is called Postgres or PostgreSQL.  

How about simply Post? Or just SQL? ;-P

 If it were
 called WeGrindUpTheBonesOfSmallChildrenSQL, maybe a change would be
 worth considering.  

And where do you think baby powder comes from? Sheesh.

 As it is, I submit that the product name is not on
 in the top 10,000 things we should be worried about fixing, even if
 there were a consensus that it were a good idea (which there isn't)
 and even if -core had not already made a decision on this point (which
 they have).  What I think we SHOULD be worrying about right now is
 getting 9.0 out the door, and I am 100% opposed to letting ourselves
 getting sucked into this or any other discussion which is likely to
 make that take longer than it likely already will.

+1

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Grzegorz Jaskiewicz

On 21 Jan 2010, at 09:37, Dave Page wrote:

 In an attempt to pre-empt the normally drawn-out discussions about
 what the next version of PostgreSQL will be numbered. the core team
 have discussed the issue and following a lenghty debate lasting
 literally a few minutes decided that the next release shall be
 
 Wait for it
 
 9.0.

darn, looks like PostgreSQL developers can only count to 4 :)



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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner

Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote:

On 21 Jan 2010, at 09:37, Dave Page wrote:


In an attempt to pre-empt the normally drawn-out discussions about
what the next version of PostgreSQL will be numbered. the core team
have discussed the issue and following a lenghty debate lasting
literally a few minutes decided that the next release shall be

Wait for it

9.0.


darn, looks like PostgreSQL developers can only count to 4 :)



http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-6-5.html


:)


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 21:26 +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
 
 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-6-5.html 

That was another great release IMHO.
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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-21 Thread Eric B. Ridge
On Jan 21, 2010, at 12:35 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

 And where do you think baby powder comes from? Sheesh.

You won the thread!

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Michael Paquier
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Andrew Chernow a...@esilo.com wrote:


 9.0.


 You don't have a code-name. All the cool kids have code-names for their
 projects.


 Black Dog

 yup, I'm a zeppelin fan :)


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
One other point about this, before anyone asks: we will of course have
to go through the source code and docs to s/8.5/9.0/.  The plan is to do
that between the conclusion of the current commitfest and the release of
the final alpha version (which will therefore call itself 9.0alpha4 not
8.5alpha4).  This delay is to avoid creating needless merge problems for
as-yet-unapplied patches.

regards, tom lane

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Andreas Joseph Krogh
On Thursday 21. January 2010 10.37.41 Dave Page wrote:
 In an attempt to pre-empt the normally drawn-out discussions about
 what the next version of PostgreSQL will be numbered. the core team
 have discussed the issue and following a lenghty debate lasting
 literally a few minutes decided that the next release shall be
 
 Wait for it
 
 9.0.

Care to shed some light on what features (yes, we users care about features) 
warrant this major version-bump? Is there a link somewhere?

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Larry Rosenman

On Thu, January 21, 2010 5:53 pm, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
 On Thursday 21. January 2010 10.37.41 Dave Page wrote:
 In an attempt to pre-empt the normally drawn-out discussions about
 what the next version of PostgreSQL will be numbered. the core team
 have discussed the issue and following a lenghty debate lasting
 literally a few minutes decided that the next release shall be

 Wait for it

 9.0.

 Care to shed some light on what features (yes, we users care about
 features) warrant this major version-bump? Is there a link somewhere?
AFAIR, it was stated if Hot Standby AND Streaming Replication hit the
tree, the release number would go to 9.0.

Both are in the tree.


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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0

2010-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Larry Rosenman l...@lerctr.org writes:
 On Thu, January 21, 2010 5:53 pm, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
 Care to shed some light on what features (yes, we users care about
 features) warrant this major version-bump? Is there a link somewhere?

 AFAIR, it was stated if Hot Standby AND Streaming Replication hit the
 tree, the release number would go to 9.0.

Yeah.  The question of when do we call it 9.0 has come up multiple
times over the past few release cycles, and when we get built-in
replication has always been one of the more popular answers.  If HS+SR
aren't enough to justify a major version bump, I'm not sure what would be.

The other bit of rationale for this is that HS+SR are likely to induce a
certain amount of, um, instability.  Labeling the release with a dot-oh
version number will help to set people's expectations about that.  For
comparison's sake, one of the main reasons for calling 8.0 8.0 was the
native Windows port, and it certainly took a while for that to settle
down.

regards, tom lane

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Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-21 Thread Jim Nasby
On Jan 21, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Eric B. Ridge wrote:
 On Jan 21, 2010, at 12:35 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
 
 And where do you think baby powder comes from? Sheesh.
 
 You won the thread!

Heh, who's the wise guy that posted the second comment on 
http://www.betanews.com/article/EU-clears-Oracle-Sun-If-MySQL-fails-theres-always-PostgreSQL/1264109388
 ?
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