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Postgres Project To Go NoSQL
TheFuzzy writes "Apparently the PostgreSQL project is caving in to recent trends and going NoSQL next year. This will leave SQLite as the only open source database still supporting SQL."
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This is another 1st April joke.
It's gotta be another Topeka or "John" Hopkins.
About damn time!
This is a frakkin' great April Fools! Especially the tinfoil guy. Props to you, whoever you are.
Maybe they just got their funding cut from their parent company of the week and decided to go all out with everything since they know there won't be a next time. :(
Granted I know this is an April Fools joke. But...
"PostgreSQL project is caving in to recent trends" How about the trend of Hand Made file IO that is on the rise too. Or other methods of storing data. The fact is that is a lot of programmers are idiots when programming in SQL and code it the wrong way where it ends up hindering their overall use.
Sure NoSQL has some advantages over SQL but it has its disadvantages too. It is a tool you can keep in you cap but I don't see why it needs to be replaced.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
No religion. No intellectual property.
PostgreWTF, too many breaking news today (not only here), it is becoming difficult to distinguish 'serious' ones.. what's so serious in this world anyway.
... Firebird goes NoSQL too...
I've finally started using the minus button on stories, and modded most posts of today as "stupid".
xkcd is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Another PostgreSQL-related one:
http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/657-PostgreSQL-9.0-Includes-the-new-MySQL-Emulation-Layer.html
Just one April Fools story should be enough.
We come here for content, you know ?
Man, this got me good. I literally yelled outloud, "WHAT?!" in my office as I read in disgust...
Try to create funny prank news.
Assholes. Now I have to hack at adblock to remove your access.
Come on April 2nd.
no u
> This is another 1st April joke.
Thanks. Due to Time Zones and all it nearly got me!
But yeah: I wonder if NoSQL's success isn't due to people who think SQL is too hard to learn, much like Extreme Programming's success is due to people who want to code but not do the boring test and documentation part.
1) QUEL is a relational query language (in some ways better than SQL and in some ways worse). Moving to QUEL would moving away from SQL without moving away from relational modelling.
2) Back in the day, Postgres didn't support SQL and only supported a dialect of QUEL called PostQUEL.
This is one of the best satires of the NoSQL movement I have read to date. If it doesn't give you an eerie retro feeling, you don't have enough background to get the jokes.
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
Let's see - it's April 1 all day. At least I think that's how it works. Some of us wait all year for this shit. Go get a life for the day if you have keyboard stuck up your ass. I remember a time when ALL /. stories would be bogus on April Fool's. Admit it - you're whining because you're afraid you won't be able to figure out which is which! Go suck on your thumb until you grow up enough to not cry bloody hell when people try to have a little fun. Or maybe you whine like that every day - and we just get to hear about it because we're special.
I really don't care either way, but if it bothers you, maybe you could STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER FOR A DAY?!?!? Quit bitching at the rest of us for not living life your way.
I remember when some April Fools stories were bogus and it was very difficult to tell which were true and which were not. Expecting every story to be an April Fools joke kind of takes the fun out of it.
Here is the REAL news:
http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/657-PostgreSQL-9.0-Includes-the-new-MySQL-Emulation-Layer.html
that this is a joke. In 1987, I graduated Cooper Union, I worked at Citibank in Funds Transfer and I was programming in QUEL on a Commercial Ingres system. Having learned both relational algebra and calculus in school, I was pleased to be able to use the more expressive calculus. Alas, it was not meant to be. Citi started cutting over to Oracle. In then left. A few years (and jobs) later I started working with Sybase. In SQL. It took me weeks to understand how to use the algebra again. We'd go a long way if this post were NOT a joke.
I thought for a second that it was true, and I was thinking "wow they think they can re-do all they've done over the years in just a matter of a year or so? " .
The summary here misses the whole joke.
Way back when, there was a relational database named Postgres that used a query language called QUEL. As SQL caught on, they had to support it, so they replaced the QUEL support with SQL support and renamed the database PostgreSQL. This is the database that we use today.
The whole joke is that they're going retro.
(Anyone who actually wants to try out an implementation of QUEL can use Ingres, which is also open source now.)
hold the bread.
Table-ized A.I.
SQL has always sucked.
It is so good to hear that all major SQL projects are dropping the SQL language.
So how is that different from any other day?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
This is the kind of thing that makes April 1 a very annoying day. You'll notice there's no retraction today. Communicating badly and then acting smug when you're misunderstood is NOT clever.