Tatsuo, I have emails even from 1995 ! You can see that historical message here: http://www.pgsql.ru/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1238939
Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL logo. *Author:* yang( at )sjuphil( dot )sju( dot )edu *Date:* 1997-04-03 20:36:33 *Subject:*<http://www.pgsql.ru/db/mw/index.html?word=Re%3A%20%5BHACKERS%5D%20PostgreSQL%20logo.>Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL logo. Some other ideas: derivative: a sword (derivative of the Dragon book cover -- Postgres as a tool) illustrative: a bowl of Alphabet Soup, with letters spelling out POSTGRESQL obscure: a revolver/hit man (Grosse Pt is an anagram of Postgres, and an abbreviation of the title of the new John Cusack movie) but if you want an animal-based logo, how about some sort of elephant? After all, as the Agatha Christie title read, elephants can remember ... David yangy...@sju.edu Oleg On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <is...@postgresql.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm Looking for information on our elephant: especially how/why we > chose elephant as our mascot. > > According to: > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Logo > > The discussion was back to 1997 on the hackers list. Unfortunately the > official archive for 1997 was lost. Mine seems to be gone too. Any > information will be appreciated. > -- > Tatsuo Ishii > SRA OSS, Inc. Japan > English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php > Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers >
