[ale] Topic ideas for November meeting

[Jim Kinney]

So far I'm going to be doing some bad stand-up comedy and avoiding
discussions of databases.
Any better ideas?
On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 16:36 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 14:46 -0500, Phil Turmel wrote:
> > I'll start being pedantic when PostgreSQL stops installing under
> > user
> > 'postgres' with group 'postgres' and database superuser 'postgres'
> > with
> > maintenance database name 'postgres'.  :-)
> You _can_ change those. The db superuser is compiled in (I think) but
> the others are setup in files at startup.
> > On 11/02/2015 02:28 PM, Scott Plante wrote:
> > > That's not really accurate. MS bought the Sybase code and forked
> > > it into
> > > MS SQL Server, but both databases continued. Sybase continued as
> > > "Sybase" for years after the fork, and still exists as a separate
> > > database called SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise. The difference is
> > > that
> > > Postgres got a SQL front end and was renamed Postgres95, and then
> > > PostgreSQL to reflect the change, but it was one project
> > > continuing on a
> > > direct path. I'd say it's more like calling "Red Hat Enterprise
> > > Linux"
> > > just "Red Hat." </extra-pedantic> :-P
> > > 
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > -------
> > > *From: *"Jeff Hubbs" <jhubbslist at att.net>
> > > *To: *ale at ale.org
> > > *Sent: *Friday, October 30, 2015 10:00:07 PM
> > > *Subject: *Re: [ale] Topic ideas for November meeting
> > > 
> > > Just remember that saying "Postgres" when you mean "PostgreSQL"
> > > is a lot
> > > like referring to "Microsoft SQL Server" as "Sybase." </pedantry>
> > 
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