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teddyh
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PostgreSQL, not Postgres.
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emartinelli
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FWIW: "The name Postgres is an accepted alias for the PostgreSQL project. However it is an alias or nickname and is not the official name of the project."
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ProjectName
andrewshadura
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Well, it's both: the original name was Postgres, later extended to include SQL in it.
teddyh
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It was Postgres for the first ten years since the start in 1985, but it’s been “PostgreSQL” for more than twenty years now.
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