RE: [GENERAL] Future of PostgreSQL

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Jeff Duska wrote:

> [SNIP]
> Java support in the database?
> Just about all the current db have support for Java in the database.

... which isnt where it belongs.  java is (barely) an applications-level
language, not a systems-level language.  let your app treat the data it
gets from a rdbms as an object/entity, not vice versa.  i think javablend
from Sun does something like this ( creating objects from rdbms data ) and
im positive NeXT/Apple's Enterprise Objects Framework does this. GNUstep's
'DBkit' ( or whatever its called ) does the same thing, but is based on
EOF1.0.  its a much, much nicer approach to the whole issue, not to
mention quite a bit more flexible and portable.

> [SNIP]
> Internet
> Oracle, IBM and other have all kinds of different Internet technologies such
> as portable version of the database -- XML, HTML export and imports,
> CORBA/Application Server type support.

would be rather trivial to write an export app that dumps the data into
html format.  in fact, psql does this already.

> [SNIP]

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