Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@speakeasy.net>]

along this line, it would be especially cool if the database
engine could export into the filesystem pointers to working
sets, closures, etc. this would allow one to write the
functional equivalent of a stored procedure without any
specific language support in the dtaabase. the place i
always thought this idea fell apart was the other reason
that stored procedures were invented -- so stuff could run
inside the server without the data or the command making a
round trip between client and server. believe me, when you're
walking a million records, it makes a big difference.

the problem is that unless you're really after performance
with insanely-large datasets, a sql-based database just isn't
worth the pain of dealing with that which does not play nicely
with others.