Describing Postgres as "object-relational" on the home page
От | Karl O. Pinc |
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Тема | Describing Postgres as "object-relational" on the home page |
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Msg-id | 20231226131047.493259f8@slate.karlpinc.com обсуждение исходный текст |
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Re: Describing Postgres as "object-relational" on the home page
Re: Describing Postgres as "object-relational" on the home page |
Список | pgsql-www |
Hi, I don't want to start bikeshedding here but maybe the answer is simple. The PG home page calls PG "object-relational". I question whether this is useful. Unlike in the 90's, nobody is really interested any more in object-oriented-everything and the typical person reading the home page probably does not know what an object-relational db is anyway. It may be better to just say "relational". In my opinion simpler is more clear and therefore better. (If another adjective is necessary I like "advanced". I feel it balances "powerful" and, in a sense, substitutes for the "object" qualifer. Because PG is more than just object-relational.) I am only asking whether the home page should be changed. Changing the "object-relational" description elsewhere/everywhere is another matter entirely. I suppose I think this because I think the home page has a different, less sophisticated, audience. For my off-the-cuff mini-rant on this topic see the PostgeSQL Wikipedia talk page: Describing PG as relational v.s. object-relational in the lead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:PostgreSQL#Describing_PG_as_relational_v.s._object-relational_in_the_lead FWIW, I know of at least 4 toggles between "relational" and "object-relational" on the wikipedia page. (It's been just "relational" for some time, but recently toggled back and forth. Feel free to explain on the talk page and change it from the current "relational" to "object-relational". I won't undo. I wrote the talk page entry mostly to keep the postgres-ignorant wikipedia enthusiasts from copy-pasting from the PG home page.) This is not worth spending much time on but I wanted to raise the issue, hoping it can be quickly resolved. There seems to be no discussion in the pgsql-www mailing list archive. Regards, Karl <kop@karlpinc.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein
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