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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Sweet. I used it during my dissertation and always thought of the name as "post-GRE-SQL" (GRE being the Graduate Requisite Exam that many in the US take to qualify for graduate school). I know that has nothing to do with the actual name (which is related to Ingres), but it's just a personal story.