New Blog Article: On Naming a Database Management System
A lighthearted examination of the different ways that people come up with names for their databases.
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What? You like the name of ? Nobody knows how to pronounce postgre[s[s[QL]]], even write it, google search it, uppercase it, and even how to abbreviate it (PG12, PG, PSQL...). What can be worse (except of course)?
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It's just like how everyone calls it the 'Sears Tower' and not the 'Willis Tower' after the renaming.
Nobody says 'PostgreSQL'. It's Postgres. I have never heard Stonebraker call it anything else.
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I regularly hear Postgre, Postgre SQL, Postgres SQL, collectively I hear all of those more commonly than Postgres or PostgreSQL, people get it wrong more than right
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We should just cut our losses and change it back. It’s stupid.
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I really like that idea
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