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How, really, do people pronounce PostgreSQL?

I've read the politically correct answer, "Post-Gres-Q-L" but it's
such a mouthful, such a day's work to pronounce, that there must be a
real street pronunciation, or a number of them, that are not being
confessed to.

They say that SQL should be pronounced "Sequel" and I've even met
people who do that. The need for a simple pronunciation with many
fewer than 4 syllables seems more urgent for PostgreSQL.

"Pig Swill" is an easy guess. It is quite catchy and simple. But I
wonder if there are other, perhaps more flattering pronunciations.

Do you have a snappy pronunciation and what is it? I'd be interested
in what the babble is at your PostgreSQL site.

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On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:

> How, really, do people pronounce PostgreSQL?
>
> I've read the politically correct answer, "Post-Gres-Q-L" but it's
> such a mouthful, such a day's work to pronounce, that there must be a
> real street pronunciation, or a number of them, that are not being
> confessed to.
>
> They say that SQL should be pronounced "Sequel" and I've even met
> people who do that. The need for a simple pronunciation with many
> fewer than 4 syllables seems more urgent for PostgreSQL.
>
> "Pig Swill" is an easy guess. It is quite catchy and simple. But I
> wonder if there are other, perhaps more flattering pronunciations.
>
> Do you have a snappy pronunciation and what is it? I'd be interested
> in what the babble is at your PostgreSQL site.

I pronounce it as above, or just refer to it as 'p-g-s-q-l' ... others
just refer to it as postgres ... and I've heard of 'pig squeal', but had
heard 'pig swill' ...

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Michael Talbot-Wilson <mtw@view.net.au> writes:
> How, really, do people pronounce PostgreSQL?

> I've read the politically correct answer, "Post-Gres-Q-L" but it's
> such a mouthful, such a day's work to pronounce, that there must be a
> real street pronunciation, or a number of them, that are not being
> confessed to.

I think most of us just say "Postgres" ;-)

> "Pig Swill" is an easy guess. It is quite catchy and simple. But I
> wonder if there are other, perhaps more flattering pronunciations.

I've always read the names of these mailing lists as "pig-squeal" ...
seems very appropriate for discussion forums, if not for the product ...

regards, tom lane

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Michael Talbot-Wilson <mtw@view.net.au> writes:

> How, really, do people pronounce PostgreSQL?

"Postgres"

-Doug

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On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:10:15 +0930 (CST), Michael Talbot-Wilson <mtw@view.net.au> wrote:
> How, really, do people pronounce PostgreSQL?

we just use postgres.

> They say that SQL should be pronounced "Sequel" and I've even met
> people who do that.

I hate that. It's an acronym not a word - you say the letters.

Who's "they"? The only datbase vendor I've heard call their own product
"sequel" is MS.

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On Mar 27, 2006, at 4:40 PM, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:

>
> Do you have a snappy pronunciation and what is it? I'd be interested
> in what the babble is at your PostgreSQL site.

Externally, to customers, "post-gres-kwul".

Internally, "the database".

Cheers,
Steve

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On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Klint Gore wrote:

>> They say that SQL should be pronounced "Sequel" and I've even met
>> people who do that.
> ...
> Who's "they"? The only datbase vendor I've heard call their own product
> "sequel" is MS.

E.g. Sybex "SQL Instant Reference" (1993), page 2.

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Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
> How, really, do people pronounce PostgreSQL?

http://www.serioustechnology.com/postgres.ogg

Or for those of you who have an inferior operating system:

http://www.serioustechnology.com/postgres.wav

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ANSI has declared that the official pronunciation for SQL is /ɛs kjuː ɛl/

Klint Gore wrote:
>
> Who's "they"? The only datbase vendor I've heard call their own product
> "sequel" is MS.

SEQUEL (pronounced sequel) was a predecessor to SQL in IBM's 1970's
System R database; but isn't really the same thing as SQL.


[both statements from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sql ]

Douglas McNaught wrote:
> Michael Talbot-Wilson <mtw@view.net.au> writes:
>
> > How, really, do people pronounce PostgreSQL?
>
> "Postgres"

The first sentence of the FAQ is:

<P>PostgreSQL is pronounced <I>Post-Gres-Q-L</I>, and is also sometimes
referred to as just <I>Postgres</I>.

Is that unclear?

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