public inbox for [email protected]
help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Karl O. Pinc <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Describing Postgres as "object-relational" on the home page
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:17:41 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 01:10:47PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't want to start bikeshedding here but maybe
> the answer is simple.
>
> The PG home page calls PG "object-relational". I question
> whether this is useful. Unlike in the 90's, nobody is
> really interested any more in object-oriented-everything
> and the typical person reading the home page probably
> does not know what an object-relational db is anyway.
>
> It may be better to just say "relational".
I guess if I had to name this with no precedence, I would call it
relational/extendable, but that seems even worse that what we have. I
do think we need something to explain that Postgres is more than simply
relational since our extendibility, along with our open source
development, are what make us popular.
I agree "object" isn't a great word, and as I heard was just used in the
1990's because object languages were the hot topic.
--
Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> https://momjian.us
EDB https://enterprisedb.com
Only you can decide what is important to you.
reply
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: Describing Postgres as "object-relational" on the home page
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox