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
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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
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