Re: What means Postgres?

Michael Fuhr schrieb:

>According to "The design of POSTGRES" by Stonebreaker and Rowe,
>POSTGRES means "POST inGRES" (the successor to INGRES).  Various
>other sources say that INGRES means "INteractive Graphics (and)
>REtrieval System."
>

Ah, this is what i searched.

I read

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/history.html

but there it is only clear that Postgres is based in Ingres. But i also don't know what Ingres means.

now I know
;-)

Daniel