Its a takeoff of ingres, the ORDBMS (Object-Relational Database Management System) postgres is based on...
The origins date to 1977 at UC Berkeley.
On 4/19/05, Daniel Schuchardt <daniel_schuchardt@web.de> wrote: Just for fun and interrest.
What means Postgres? Where and why this name was born?
Daniel
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