On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 15:05, Markus Wagner wrote:
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> spectrum there is a DBMS called 'Postgres', and I wonder if this one could be
> 'our' PostgreSQL. I never heared about something called 'Postgres', but maybe
> this could be a name for the actual PostgreSQL used in the past.
...
> Can anyone provide a clarification?
>
> Here is the reference:
>
> J. Widom. Deductive and Active Databases: Two Paradigms or Ends of a Spectrum?
> Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Rules in Database Systems,
> pages 306-315, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1993.
In 1993, PostgreSQL was called Postgres. After it was abandoned by
Berkeley and taken over by the current team, it was renamed to
Postgres95 and later to PostgreSQL.
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