Re: Proper relational database?

From: <david(at)andl(dot)org>
To: "'PostgreSQL General'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proper relational database?
Date: 2016-04-23 04:43:10
Message-ID: 000501d19d1a$a5d5d560$f1818020$@andl.org
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> 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?

I very much doubt it. The use case has to be established first.

As it happens, the existing PL extension capability provides enough to get an alternative query language (such as Andl) to work. That's why I chose Postgres.

Making it a 'native' would be not so hard if there is real demand.

Regards
David M Bennett FACS

Andl - A New Database Language - andl.org

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