[mamcx]

Because most of a db engine is a black box. I can't just say:

   select * from journal

Neither stuff like

   select * from index_customer

and many other things. This is good and bad. Good because is less likely to people to mess with the engine and bad when you think in your DB as more that a restricted data store.

My dream is build one more flexible, starting with a relational lang:

https://bitbucket.org/tablam/tablam/wiki/Home

But this is still in prototyping.