At 21:12 +0300 on 22/7/98, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> University Ingres was first, then commercial Ingres was a split-off.
> PostgreSQL is based on University Ingres.
Which also explains the name... Remember the old lesson in data structures
about pre-order, in-order and post-order traversal of binary trees?
Well, if you have an in-gres, then you can also have a pre-gres and a
post-gres. Pre-gres would imply that it is older, less advanced than
ingres. Hence Postgres.
QED :-)
Herouth
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