Re: PL/pgSQL 2

On 09/02/2014 11:52 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote:
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> On 02/09/14 11:44, Pavel Stehule wrote:
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>> For 9.4, we have the media already saying "Postgres has NoSQL
>> capabilities" (which is only partially true). For x.y we could
>> have the media saying "Postgres adds Oracle compatibility" (which
>> would be only partially true). But that brings a lot of users to
>> postgres, and that helps us all.
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>> Partial true can enforce so lot of people will hate postgres too.
>> False promises are wrong
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> Then let's stop talking about postgres being NoSQL. NoSQL is
> basically "schema-less" (really bad name) plus "infinite scalability"
> (which basically means transparent sharding). We fail to provide the
> latter very clearly...
Have you ever tried any of the "real" NoSQL products version of
"infinite scalability" ?

We are no worse than most if you use just the unstructured part (which
is what the NoSQL crowd provides) and something like pl/proxy for scaling.

Cheers

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Hannu Krosing
PostgreSQL Consultant
Performance, Scalability and High Availability
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