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40 Years of Postgres

Old POSTGRES and Postgres95 nameplates go up on a shelf in 1996; the elephant struggles with an oversized PostgreSQL nameplate while a newcomer asks how to pronounce it; today two cards read PostgreSQL and Postgres side by side.

Worst mistake ever made

In 1996 the volunteers renamed Postgres95 to PostgreSQL to reflect the new query language and restarted numbering at 6.0. The name has been argued over ever since; Tom Lane later called it the project's single worst mistake. Both PostgreSQL and Postgres are official names.

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