OK, and when a significant amount of what those functions do is shared, how do you share it? (E.g. imagine we're building, IDK, some kind of CMS, and in one view we have authors (based on some criteria) and posts by those authors, and in another we have tags and posts under those tags, and in another we have date ranges and posts in that date range. How do you share the "fetching posts" bit of SQL between those three different (parameterized) queries?)
> if the DB accepted structured queries, then the API would rely on something like protobuf to parse raw bytes to native types -- it doesn't
> like `echo SELECT * FROM whatever; | psql` does not parse the `SELECT * FROM whatever;` string to a structured type, it sends the string directly to the database
In both cases the parsing happens on the server, not the client. "echo abcde | psql" and "curl -D abcde http://my-protobuf-service/" are both doing the same kind of thing - passing an unstructured string to a server which will fail to parse it and give some kind of error - and both equally useless.