Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Lamar Owen dijo:
>
> > On Wednesday 10 July 2002 09:26 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > (I personally voted for 'tigres' at the time we chose PostgreSQL.)
> >
> > As in the river?
>
> I don't think so. The river is actually called "Tigris" (that's the
> spanish version, and the version that generates more results in Google,
> althought I admit that the english transliteration may be different).
>
> Tigres is the spanish plural for "tiger", and of course it keeps the
> play on "-gres" while suggesting some kind of power (and speed?). But I
> think Bruce should be actually better informed than me as to what was
> the origin of the word suggestion in the first place.
Tigres (female tiger) was suggested because it is the only common *gres
word we could think of.
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