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by assface 1904 days ago
> Rather than a query planner, an interesting approach would be to expose the more stable part of the internals with a new language and let people roll their own query plans.

Those that are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.

Go read Stonebraker's "What Goes Around Comes Around"

https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2020/papers/01-intro/...

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Thank you!

This paper (only started on it) looks fantastically interesting. And yes, I'm old enough to actually have worked on hierarchical databases.