| From: | Ned Lilly <ned(at)nedscape(dot)com> |
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| To: | Chris Travers <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com> |
| Cc: | decibel(at)decibel(dot)org, elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com>, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Thoughs after discussions at OSCON |
| Date: | 2005-08-14 23:51:39 |
| Message-ID: | 42FFD90B.6080800@nedscape.com |
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Chris Travers wrote:
> Personally I have never bought the "Put as much logic into your database
> as possible." This can *easily* be taken way too far. Review the
> discussions on pgsql-general about why sending email from the database
> backend is a bad idea. Can you write a CRM application server in
> PLPGSQL? Sure. But I am not sure it is a good idea.....
We've got a very powerful ERP system that has most of its transactional business logic in pl/pgsql, so I'll respectfully disagree with you here ;-) We think it makes a powerful showcase for what PostgreSQL can do with even commodity-level server hardware.
Cheers,
Ned
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Ned Lilly
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