| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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: | 2022-02-15 20:23:33 |
| Message-ID: | YgwLxSZeuG0pE+8R@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 02:18:35PM -0600, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Exactly. SQL is proven to be more productive and code written in it
> has longer longevity than alternatives. It's also generally more
> terse in the hands of a good author. The authors of all the 'SQL
> sucks' rants don't really explore why this is the case. For example,
> SQL has transactions and pretty much all other major languages don't.
> They may have it in a limited sense but not standardized throughout
> the syntax and the standard libraries. High quality automatic
> concurrency models are another factor.
What I found with QUEL was that simple things were easier than SQL, but
things like aggregates and subqueries were harder, confusing. or
impossible.
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