So, let's just flat-out ask. Dear Important People: would the PostgreSQL project consider supporting other query languages? Or creating a plug-in mechanism for them, so that alternative interface languages could be added without changing the base code? On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Guyren Howe <guyren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Anyone familiar with the issue would have to say that the tech world would be a significantly better place if IBM had developed a real relational database with an elegant query language rather than the awful camel of a thing that is SQL. > > If I had a few $million to spend in a philanthropical manner, I would hire some of the best PG devs to develop a proper relational database server. Probably a query language that expressed the relational algebra in a scheme-like syntax, and the storage model would be properly relational (eg no duplicate rows). > > It's an enormous tragedy that all the development effort that has gone into NoSQL database has pretty much all gotten it wrong: by all means throw out SQL, but not the relational model with it. They're all just rehashing the debate over hierarchical storage from the 70s. Comp Sci courses should feature a history class. > > It's a bit odd to me that someone isn't working on such a thing. > > Just curious what folks here have to say… > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Ray Brinzer -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
