Even if they do stop developing it, will it make a difference?
Firstly, it's not like Sun were doing a great job of pushing it forward.
Secondly, MySQL is GPL and has an active community perfectly capable of forking it.
Firstly, it's not like Sun were doing a great job of pushing it forward.
Secondly, MySQL is GPL and has an active community perfectly capable of forking it.
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I have been writing extensions to Postgresql in C++ recently, and it's amazing what you can do if you have the full flexibility of loading a .so into the db process and doing whatever you want.
I did the same thing in SQL Server, too, so it's not a new concept and the other RDBMs with that ability still have a use for traditional stored procs.
My experience with both stored procs and running actual programming languages on the database is that one does not replace the other; but I'll wait with an open mind to see.