From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: erik quanstrom Subject: Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help Message-Id: <20020121223406.E91D83FE57@quanstro.net> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:34:06 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4025baa8-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.