On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 6:02:51 AM EST Mike Sofen wrote: > the natural lashup of plpgsql to postgres (I liked Alban’s term, > “impedance”), is a key aspect. Not to deprive Alban of any of his credit, but the term "impedance mismatch" is at least 25 year old; as far as I know it was coined to describe the problems arising from attempting to shoehorn an OO model onto a relational database. And despite the smart people in academia warning us about that mismatch in the early 90s, we bravely soldiered (I'm taking full blame myself here) on and 10-15 years later came up with abominations like Hibernate... History lesson over, carry on... -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general