On Apr 3, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Chris Browne wrote:
> jnasby@pervasive.com (Jim Nasby) writes:
>> On Mar 31, 2006, at 4:17 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>>> Given the tendency people have to remove the capitalised bits to get
>>> 'postgre', we'd probably end up with 'ostres'
>>
>> Man I hate when people do that.
>>
>> I think we should just rename the database to 'Fred'. :)
>
> Yeah, someone at the office was asking me on the elevator about
> whether some Post-something was somehow up and coming.
>
> In retrospect, I think he was trying to pronounce Postgre, and arrived
> at something I had never heard before...
And it doesn't help when "post-something" could also mean a very
popular MTA...
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