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From: aoki@postgres.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
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turk@andrews.edu (Daniel Turk) writes:
> How do you pronounce the word "Postgres"?  Does it sound like "gers" (as
> in 'fingers') or like "gres" (as in 'rest')?

"ingres" was always pronounced "in-gress" even though the painter's
name is something like "on-ger" (i'm not a art history or french major,
sorry).

since "postgres" is "post-ingres", it is pronounced "post-gress".

the follow-on DDBMS project has been given a much more euphonious name
("mariposa").
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