Discussion on changing name from PostgreSQL to Postgres

This is a wiki page created to discuss the steps that would have to be taken should the decision to change the name be taken.

As far as I know, the core team's position is that the product is called PostgreSQL, with Postgres being an acceptable alias.

If you ask me, this comic sums up the issue adequately: http://xkcd.com/747/

Alternatively, if you want to have a few laughs, check this out: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/File:05_-_Gabrielle_Roth_-_p...

As mentioned, this page has been up for ages (I've actually read it previously). At this point its sort of pointless, it is normally referred to as 'Postgres' by people giving PG talks at conferences and such.

Too much thinking about something which does not ultimately matter.

I regret even bothering to write these two sentences.

At Heroku we call it Postgres in all things and at all times unless we're referring to official community stuff.

It's a much better name, and it's the original name, and I hope some day it will be the only name.

Finally, i was never sure how to pronounce that damn thing! :P

This is just a wiki page, not an official announcement.

Maybe, just maybe, people might actually be able to spell and pronounce it now. I mean, even the leaders in the feel fuck it up all the time.

Having gone through a company rename with much less history than the PostgreSQL name, I would say this is a shockingly bad idea.

some other names that I often use when refering to postgresql:

pgsql

psql

postgre

In the end postgres might end up just as confusing as postgresql, and in favor of the current name, at least it is status quo.

I've (and all of my developer friends) have been calling it Postgres for years.

This is not an announcement, and is a misleading HN submission. The history of that page makes it fairly obvious:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/index.php?title=Postgres&acti...

The text is almost verbatim since it was written in 2008. The last discussion on this was 2007/2008, as I recall:

http://andyastor.blogspot.com/2007/08/postgresql-or-postgres...