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		no-dr-onboard 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ogres Are Cool read this as "ogress", thinking it was some new variant of postgresql. My mind has been destroyed by HN!

layer8 9 months ago | [–]

PostgreSQL, former name Postgres, is the successor of INGRES = INteractive Graphics REtrieval System. Maybe OGRES is the Original Gangster REtrieval System.

thayne 9 months ago | [–]

Ogress means a female Ogre

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