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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.
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.
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.
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...
Why do you think a post singularity world would lack in either of those things?
(Offtopic, I know: I admit I enjoy the April Fool's stuff as a novelty once a year (esp the Chatroulette this year) but my brain is bored)
If you can read this... 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011
Try to create funny prank news.
Come on April 2nd.
> 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.
From the point of view of us solidly pre-singularity humans, what would be the practical difference between a god, God, or some post-singularity entity? They're all capable of things that we can't imagine and could crush us like a bug if they so choose.
Citation needed.
You laugh, but Mozilla Raindrop, the latest project by the Thunderbird devs, uses CouchDB. No April fools here.
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.
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.)
SQL has always sucked.
It is so good to hear that all major SQL projects are dropping the SQL language.
It wouldn't be that bad. The old versions of Postgres actually used QUEL so I would expect they would go back to Postgres95 then see what needed to be done to map the new syntax into the planning trees. Honestly a QUEL module would be pretty cool.
I would settle for a PL/PGQUEL module though.
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
So how is that different from any other day?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.