(Nice joke) But - not true! from the wiki: "The name refers to the project's origins as a "post-Ingres" database, being a development from University Ingres DBM

(Nice joke) But - not true! from the wiki: "The name refers to the project's origins as a "post-Ingres" database, being a development from University Ingres DBMS (Ingres being an abbreviation for INteractive Graphics REtrieval System)." more history can be found at http://www.postgresql.org/about/history/ http://www.postgresql.org/about/history/