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by mulmen 1459 days ago
Postgres is the Post-Ingres database. Originally it used QUEL (as in PostQUEL as in libpq) as a query language. When SQL support was added the product name was changed to PostgreSQL

Postgree isn’t a thing.

Postgres or PostgreSQL are acceptable. Postgre or postgree are not.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/history.html