> I have very strong feelings that a universally pronounceable product name is ESSENTIAL to wide adoption

What? SQL itself is cursed with people thinking there's one right way to pronounce it, and everybody else is stupid, but PostgreSQL has the advantage that you can just say "Postgres" and dodge that mess. Good luck saying "MySQL" without triggering at least one person in your office.

(I think the official MySQL stance is that both pronunciations are acceptable, but that doesn't stop pedants from being pedantic.)

The only right way to pronounce it is my-squeal

It’s pronounced “postgres”, as in “ingress” but with “in” replaced by “post”. If that helps. No one pronounces the “SQL”, as no one can agree on its pronunciation.

Agreed, though most people just call/pronounce it "post gress". Wish it had a better name though.

i both pronounce and spell it postgres. is that not a formal thing?

It’s how nearly everyone pronounces it, and for the most part spells it in common usage. The formal thing IIRC is that the name is PostgreSQL as it was originally a successor to Ingres, and added SQL support later.