Re: postgresql -- what's in a name?

On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 08:03:27PM -0500, Doug McNaught wrote:
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pdf/history.pdf
>
> May help enlighten you...

i bet that was an interesting presentation!

still, i'm after the etymology -- whence "postgres"?

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