From: David Johnston <polobo@yahoo.com>
To: 'Darren Duncan' <darren@darrenduncan.net>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Using Postgresql as application server
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:54:18 -0400
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<4E498536.9080109@darrenduncan.net>
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>>I believe that it is ideal for Postgres to be computationally complete in that one *could* use it to implement a complete application. That isn't to say one should do this as a matter of course, good to use appropriate tools for a >>job, but that it should at least be possible if one wanted to. -- Darren Duncan
So who wants to fund the effort to create the necessary infrastructure to display a programmer-defined user interface screen (think of the "Forms" module in Microsoft Access)? Or are you expecting the end-user to open up PgAdmin and type "SELECT hello_world();". I would argue that because PostgreSQL is able to talk with many languages that can create these "Forms" (or even - through extensions - a web-browser) that such functionality is NOT DESIREABLE and thus PostgreSQL would not ideally be "computationally complete" by that definition.
David J.
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