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From: "David Johnston" <polobo@yahoo.com>
To: "'Darren Duncan'" <darren@darrenduncan.net>,
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Subject: Re: Using Postgresql as application server
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:54:18 -0400
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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.