| I haven't checked to follow this up, but it seems like the sort of announcement one might expect on 1 April. Brent Wood DBA/GIS consultant NIWA, Wellington New Zealand >>> Darren Duncan <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 04/02/11 3:01 PM >>> I was under the impression that QUEL was actually a good language in some ways, and that it was more relational and better than SQL in some ways. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages Maybe bringing it back would be a good idea, but as an alternative to SQL rather than a replacement. In any event, QUEL was somewhat similar to SQL. -- Darren Duncan Rajasekhar Yakkali wrote: > "Following a great deal of discussion, I'm pleased to announce that the > PostgreSQL Core team has decided that the major theme for the 9.1 > release, due in 2011, will be 'NoSQL'. > > "... the intention is to remove SQL support from > Postgres, and replace it with a language called 'QUEL'. This will > provide us with the flexibility we need to implement the features of > modern NoSQL databases. With no SQL support there will obviously be > some differences in the query syntax that must be used to access your > data. " > > hmm.. shock it is ....this shift for 9.1 due in mid 2011 is unexpectedly > soon :) > > Curious to understand as to > > - how this relates to every feature that is provide at the moment based on > RDBMS paradigm. > > ACID compliance, support for the features provided by SQL, referential > integrity, joins, caching etc, .. > > - Also does this shift take into an assumption that all the use cases fit > the likes of data access patterns & usecases similar to facebook/twitter? > or to address the the likes of those ? > > Thanks, > Raj > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
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