I just got it: PostgreSQL Application Server -- a new project.
Mark Woodward <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>
From: pgsql@mohawksoft.com
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-06-12T04:37:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I have been harping for the last few days (years, actually) about tweaks and changes to PostgreSQL for a number of reasons ranging from session management to static tables. I even had a notion to come up with msession on PostgreSQL. I have been incorporating full text search, recommendations, and a slew of other features into PostgreSQL, but you know what? While it does touch Postgre in a real sense, it is not strictly SQL. It is about how to create applications with PostgreSQL. That's what we're missing, Coneptually, PostgreSQL is strictly a database and the core team (rightly so) is fundimentally happy with that aspect of it. Maybe we need a pgfoundary project called "PostgreSQL Application Server." Like Apache Tomcat or regular apache or PHP, PostgreSQL could form the SQL base of a far more intricate and flexable framework that encompases a lot of the various features that could provide "application sever" features from PostgreSQL.