"Dan Mahoney (Gushi)" <[email protected]> writes:
> It makes mention of the original professor who spearheaded the project
> under a DARPA grant, but it would probably do well to know where the name
> came from.
You should read Joe Hellerstein's recollections [1]. But tl;dr: the
origin of the name is the old INGRES database system; Postgres was
then named Post-inGres. There are also some references to PostQUEL
referring to the ancient QUEL (QUEry Language) project [2].
regards, tom lane
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01973
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages
regards, tom lane
