I was dreading the big "BUT + <arbitrary rant>", and indeed, it never came.
I share many of the views of the author. It's a great piece of software.
Yeah, I could quibble about how the XML support in Postgres is not really equal to an XML database--it's still limited to xpath/xslt 1.0, and no xquery--but the fact that is has any at all is still handy and useful. I mean, I guess it would be too much to ask for it to do _everything_.
And if you need that, you can easily write a function to do it in one of dozens of languages – from pl/SQL to pl/V8, or even pl/C – or even directly write an extension (and I think there are already a few for that purpose)
Yea, same here on that “BUT.” Which just made me love it more.
We need more of these ;-) I started reading afraid its a thin-veiled complaint and was positively surprised as well :)
I know and the piece is spot on, not to mention the fact that with PostGIS its the best database for spatial anything, much better then expensive proprietary solutions. Thanks postgres!
I'd argue that Spatialite also has its place, but I use both that and PostGIS very happily.
I think it is more a matter of time because that is what mature relationships of the sort that take the good with the bad and acknowledge gradual change and value stability require. It's what separates love songs to Lisp from enthusiasm for React.