Group: pgsql.advocacy


Subject: [CORE] Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)
From: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane)
Date: 9/3/2007 3:43:52 PM
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes: > This shows 70% in favor of a change to "Postgres", so far. Of course, that's 70% of -advocacy, which by nature is going to be the subset of the community most interested in this change and least interested in the ensuing costs. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly

Subject: [CORE] Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)
From: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane)
Date: 9/3/2007 4:00:27 PM
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Of course, that's 70% of -advocacy, which by nature is going to be the >> subset of the community most interested in this change and least >> interested in the ensuing costs. > It seems there were a significant number of people with swag who will > pay the cost somehow. That's adopting exactly the view I thought it was, that only directly marketing-related costs matter. Again, this seems to be considering only advocacy-related concerns. I'll confine my reply to one point: do you have any idea what will happen if I try to change the default PGDATA location on Red Hat from /var/lib/pgsql to something else? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq