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teddyh | karma 23902 | avg karma 2.94 · 2018-03-19 07:43:52

PostgreSQL, not Postgres.

andrewshadura | karma 1749 | avg karma 2.36 · 2018-03-19 07:45:03

Well, it's both: the original name was Postgres, later extended to include SQL in it.

teddyh | karma 23902 | avg karma 2.94 · 2018-03-19 17:49:14+00:00

It was Postgres for the first ten years since the start in 1985, but it’s been “PostgreSQL” for more than twenty years now.

emartinelli | karma 883 | avg karma 15.49 · 2018-03-19 07:49:06

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

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