From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Kaare Rasmussen <kaare(at)jasonic(dot)dk>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server, Oracle |
Date: | 2006-10-11 18:04:11 |
Message-ID: | 20061011180411.GH9860@fetter.org |
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:43:39AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Jeff Davis wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 09:41 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> >> "First, the ability to write functions and stored procedures is
> >> somewhat more limited than you would get with Oracle's PL/SQL or
> >> Sybase's T-SQL."
> >>
> >> I don't know which languages they were looking at, but it's hard
> >> to imagine how PL/SQL or T-SQL outdid PL/Perl, PL/PythonU,
> >> PL/Ruby, PL/sh, etc. from a flexibility perspective.
> >
> > Or C, for that matter. Doesn't get much less "limited" than
> > allowing C functions with a very powerful SPI. It's hard to argue
> > with them when they don't provide a single example, however.
>
> O.k. guys, the article wasn't perfect but it was a heck of a lot
> more fair an accurate then what we usually see from the press.
I'd think you of all people would be a little peeved at having your
support dismissed this way by their failure to mention that your kind
of support was available.
> I have already written the editor with a note about the
> misconception of our procedural languages.
That's a start :) You'll notice what I started this off with, which
is "With friends like these..." These guys wrote a book on
PostgreSQL. They should know better, but for some reason have decided
to spread a bunch of FUD.
Cheers,
D
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