Re: Can we go beyond the standard to make Postgres radically better?

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala(dot)mladen(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Benedict Holland <benedict(dot)m(dot)holland(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can we go beyond the standard to make Postgres radically better?
Date: 2022-02-11 16:12:34
Message-ID: 72f29033-c283-666e-acd3-6ac7c14ffe59@gmail.com
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On 2/11/22 09:48, Benedict Holland wrote:
> So to summarize, people are bad programmers who refuse to learn SQL So
> SQL is the problem? Common. You cannot bring that to a postgres list
> serve.
>
> Look. It's not perfect. It's a pain. It is hard to generate queries
> (oh my God why are you doing this?) and it's hard to work with. You
> are describing c++ to Python programmers and arguing why no one should
> ever use c++. And look, there are other languages that are way better
> like Python. So why would anyone ever chose c++?
>
There is probably a misunderstanding here. I haven't talked about
people, I leave that to politicians. Second, I was defending SQL. You've
got me confused with somebody else. Last but not least, I didn't bring
anything to this list, I was just responding to the posts.

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Mladen Gogala
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https://dbwhisperer.wordpress.com

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