Re: PostgreSQL in the press again - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: PostgreSQL in the press again
Date
Msg-id 20041113134501.K3792@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL in the press again  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL in the press again  (Thomas Hallgren <thhal@mailblocks.com>)
Re: PostgreSQL in the press again  (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>)
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
>>
>> It is never the fault of a programming language per se. People with a good
>> understanding of object design will write "object oriented code" in every
>> language, even assembler. People who just don't know what they are doing
>> will write bad code, and the best Pascal compiler in the world won't be
>> able to prevent that.
>
> Yes but I believe even you would agree that their are programming languages
> that are better for certain tasks than others. The use of java as a
> replication engine for PostgreSQL seems, well... incorrect.

We definitely concur with that, which is why we are re-writing it ...
going to Java, as Andrew has mentioned, was *not* a design decision that
we made, but was made for us :(

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