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by marcus_holmes 2405 days ago
> Who wants to break old SQL? Nobody.

Every couple of months there's a new startup / dev site that says "SQL is broken/old/bad, so we reinvented it!". They all sink without trace, but there's a cohort who agrees with them.
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setr 2405 days ago
The problem I think is they typically try to go ahead and reinvent the entire RDBMS as well.

It's not clear to me why postgres hasn't simply grown a whole array of frontends..

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marcus_holmes 2404 days ago
Agree totally. I had to climb the painful learning curve of psql because none of the front ends worked the way I wanted for some reason or another. Of course, having learned psql, I'm now scathing of anyone wanting a front end... hmm... maybe that's why ;)
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setr 2404 days ago
I was actually thinking about the lack of SQL alternatives using the postgres engine; for example, why is datalog not simply available as an extension? Or MySQL syntax? PG implements a wide array of alternatives to PL/pgSQL (including standard programming languages eg python), but for whatever reason these SQL-alts never seem to consider being layered on top of the postgres engine.

However, the lack of GUI frontends is also really weird. I don't see why it'd be harder to support than any other DB, and afaik pg has gotten fairly popular..

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marcus_holmes 2404 days ago
true, why isn't there a MongoDb alternative that just wraps jsonb on Postgres?
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