Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2011-04-01 Thread Darren Duncan
I was under the impression that QUEL was actually a good language in some ways, and that it was more relational and better than SQL in some ways. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages Maybe bringing it back would be a good idea, but as an alternative to SQL rather than a replacem

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2011-04-01 Thread Rajasekhar Yakkali
"Following a great deal of discussion, I'm pleased to announce that the PostgreSQL Core team has decided that the major theme for the 9.1 release, due in 2011, will be 'NoSQL'. "... the intention is to remove SQL support from Postgres, and replace it with a language called 'QUEL'. This will provid

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/01/2010 09:54 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:05 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote: On Apr 1, 2010, at 3:01 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: I prefer to dump all my data in a big text file and grep it for the information I need. As long as you implement your own grep, that soun

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 10:54 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:05 AM, David E. Wheeler > wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2010, at 3:01 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > >>> I prefer to dump all my data in a big text file and grep it for the > >>> information I need. > >> > >> As long as

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:05 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote: > On Apr 1, 2010, at 3:01 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > >>> I prefer to dump all my data in a big text file and grep it for the >>> information I need. >> >> As long as you implement your own grep, that sounds about on par with >> the curren

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Apr 1, 2010, at 3:01 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> I prefer to dump all my data in a big text file and grep it for the >> information I need. > > As long as you implement your own grep, that sounds about on par with > the current trends! Go for it! Well, first you have to implement your own

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread Magnus Hagander
2010/4/1 Thom Brown : > On 1 April 2010 09:13, Dave Page wrote: >> >> Following a great deal of discussion, I'm pleased to announce that the >> PostgreSQL Core team has decided that the major theme for the 9.1 >> release, due in 2011, will be 'NoSQL'. >> >> There is a growing trend towards NoSQL d

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread Ilya Kosmodemiansky
Nice to hear and thumbs up! I've just start planning to migrate one of my telco 3Tb database running blunt oracle to coachDb but now of course postgres looks better. Hopefully stupid transactions will be abrogated to wbr Ilya On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Dave Page wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 20

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread gabriele.bartolini
Ciao Dave, > You may also notice that without SQL, the project name is somewhat > misleading. To address that, the project name will be changed to > 'PostgreQUEL' with the 9.1 release. We expect this will also put an > end to the periodic debates on changing the project name. Ahahahah ... nice fi

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Thom Brown wrote: > I prefer to dump all my data in a big text file and grep it for the > information I need. There's no need to start showing off and get all technical y'know. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread Thom Brown
On 1 April 2010 09:13, Dave Page wrote: > Following a great deal of discussion, I'm pleased to announce that the > PostgreSQL Core team has decided that the major theme for the 9.1 > release, due in 2011, will be 'NoSQL'. > > There is a growing trend towards NoSQL databases, with major sites > li

[HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
Following a great deal of discussion, I'm pleased to announce that the PostgreSQL Core team has decided that the major theme for the 9.1 release, due in 2011, will be 'NoSQL'. There is a growing trend towards NoSQL databases, with major sites like Twitter and Facebook utilising them extensively. N