--On mardi 12 février 2002 01:18 -0600 will trillich <will@serensoft.com>
wrote:
> and the name postgres is from post-ingres, which stood for
> "INteractive Graphics and REtrieval System". the acronym is a
> bit off ("ingres" instead of "igrs" or "igars") but there it is.
I'll wager the acronym's author was fond of the famous painter
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/ingres/
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Eric Cholet