På mandag 15. august 2011 kl 16:36:23 skrev du: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Andreas Joseph Krogh > <andr...@officenet.no> wrote: > > No, PG has never, and will never, act as an application-server. > > Why in the world not? Now, it may or may not be a good idea but there > is no technical constraint that prevents postgresql from being used in > this fashion. I think it's a fine idea. > > Postgresql has certain features, in particular being able to implement > functions in any language, that make it uniquely well suited among its > peers to act as a application server platform. Having a > quasi-functional front end to your middeware procedural code is very > powerful as is having direct access to a local data store for caching > and spooling purposes. So powerful that I would argue that if > properly supported by tools it would be superior to many of the more > classic stacks in use today. I could go down the list of reasons why > that's the case -- tight coupling with data, performance, emphasis on > transactional coding, etc. There are downsides too, but those could > be mitigated with some thought and work. > > Postgres is not just a database -- it's a language hosting platform if > you want to use it as such. Now, you can continue to do things as > you've always done (database 'here', code 'here', web server 'here'), > but why discourage people from trying out different things? > > merlin
Sorry if I stepped on any toes here. But seriously - by my definition of app-server PG is not suited at all. I strongly would discourage anyone from using any RDBMS as an app-server. *IMO* it makes development, testing, separation-of-consern, debugging and re-deployment a nightmare. PG has a lot of nice DB-features and I use it every day, but as an app-server - no way. -- Andreas Joseph Krogh <andr...@officenet.no> Senior Software Developer / CTO Public key: http://home.officenet.no/~andreak/public_key.asc ------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ OfficeNet AS | The most difficult thing in the world is to | Rosenholmveien 25 | know how to do a thing and to watch | 1414 Trollåsen | somebody else doing it wrong, without | NORWAY | comment. | Org.nr: NO 981 479 076 | | | | Tlf: +47 24 15 38 90 | | Fax: +47 24 15 38 91 | | Mobile: +47 909 56 963 | | ------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
