[cgh]

Unfortunately you were downvoted, but it wasn't so long ago on HN that every second story was NoSQL this, NoSQL that. There were even "SQL is dead"/"relational DBs are dead" posts, just ridiculous. So it's nice to see stories like this.

I've been writing a lot of recursive queries for Postgresql lately using CTEs. Quite cool though a little mindbending at times.

[michaelchisari]

I remember those days. I was never sold on NoSQL, but if anything can be said, it lit a fire under SQL and competition in the space was ultimately a good thing.

Glad I didn't go all in on NoSQL, though.

[crdoconnor]

HN is very fad-oriented.

[andybak]

Except some fads turn out to be long-term trends, so it's worth keeping one eye open.

[crdoconnor]

Absolutely, but it pays to be very skeptical and to pay closer attention to the negative "I have used this technology and it sucks because [links to the bug tracker]" articles than the ones that gush about how great they are.

[davidgerard]

There's probably a trendy Hacker News technology lifestyle cycle chart to be drawn, step 3 or 4 of which is "developer is bitten by deficiency in the technology, writes blog post saying it sucks and not to use it, gets 200 points and front page".

[davidgerard]

The main reason I read HN is to keep up with whatever manic fancy will catch the developers' eyes this week, leading to me supporting it for a couple of years.