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It's called Postgres because it was the second DBMS that Stonebraker started after Ingres. So it's "post Ingres", or "post gres"
by assface 10y ago
It's called Postgres because it was the second DBMS that Stonebraker started after Ingres. So it's "post Ingres", or "post gres"
- astrodust 10y agoThen they made it speak SQL, so it was called PostgreSQL, which some might confuse as "Postgre SQL".