user erix intelligence intellige artificial language natural AI BioPerl Generator Parsing NLP Bioinformatics  To paraphrase Dobzhansky: <blockquote> Nothing in Intelligent Design makes sense except in the light of Creationism          <blockquote>(original quote [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_in_Biology_Makes_Sense_Except_in_the_Light_of_Evolution|here]) </blockquote></blockquote> [http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1463/|PostgreSQL 9.3beta1] is released (not for production) - <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v9.3beta1/">source download is here</a> (May 13, 2013) <a href="https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.3" target="_blank">What's new in PostgreSQL 9.3 (beta1)</a> [http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1456/|PostgreSQL 9.2.4] is released - latest stable - <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v9.2.4/">source download is here</a> (Apr 4, 2013) <blockquote> Legacy versions [http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1456/|9.1.9, 9.0.13, 8.4.17] <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/download/">(download here)</a> (Apr 4, 2013) </blockquote> <a href="http://www.sqlfiddle.com" target="_blank">http://www.sqlfiddle.com</a> A nice tool to experiment with different flavours of SQL. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgresql#Upcoming_features" target="_blank">Upcoming features (committed in 9.3devel) wikipedia</a> <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/" target="_blank">PostgreSQL</a> / <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/about/featurematrix" target="_blank">featurematrix</a> PostgreSQL Development: git://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git / <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=summary" target="_blank">gitweb view</a> Development takes place in regular <a href="https://commitfest.postgresql.org/" target="_blank">commitfests</a> (<a href="https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view/inprogress" target="_blank">commitfest in progress</a> / <a href="https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view/open" target="_blank">open</a>). <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/" target="_blank">dev docs (git master=9.3devel)</a> Hubert Lubaczewski's blog is <a href="http://www.depesz.com/" target="_blank">depesz.com</a>; articles about new features as they get committed: [http://www.depesz.com/?s=waiting+for+9.3 | "Waiting for 9.3"]. <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05/salesforce-tom-lane/" target="_blank">War on Oracle (May 2013)</a> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/04/open_and_shut_oracle/" target="_blank">The gift that keeps on giving to Oracle ... is dying (Dec 2012)</a> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/25/oracle_without_the_database/" target="_blank">Why Oracle must kiss goodbye to its database past (Sept 2012)</a> <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/717033/French_Government_Outlines_Plans_for_Free_Software_Adoption" target="_blank">PostgreSQL / French government (sept 2012)</a> <a href="http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2007q3/" target="_blank">PostgreSQL vs. Oracle</a> (2007 SPEC) <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/02/oracel_mysql/" target="_blank">Oracle squeezing MySQL (Oct 2012)</a> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4ED5FD9C020000250004363C@gw.wicourts.gov" target="_blank">PostgreSQL vs. Sybase (Nov 2011, report of a Sybase->Pg migration</a> <a href="http://tweakers.net/reviews/649/7" target="_blank">PostgreSQL vs. Brand "M"</a> (must you ask?)    (<a href="http://tweakers.net/reviews/674/8" target="_blank">more of the same</a>) <a href="http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Why_PostgreSQL_Instead_of_MySQL_2009" target="_blank">Why PostgreSQL Instead of Brand "M" 2009</a> (again...) <a href="http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=92525">Is MySQL really this bad? (2008)</a> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-20/oracle-misses-estimates-as-clients-throttle-tech-spending-shares-decline.html" target="_blank">Oracle is in decline (Dec 2011)</a>  Oracle/RAC: <a href="http://www.my-idconcept.de/downloads/You_Probably_Dont_Need_RAC.pdf">(PDF) You_Probably_Dont_Need_RAC (2003) (PDF)<a> [http://datachomp.com/archives/top-10-reasons-i-like-postgres-over-sql-server/ | 10 reasons why postgres >> sql-server ]  PostgreSQL has stored procedures in several languages. One of those languages is Perl. See <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2005/11/10/using-perl-in-postgresql.html">this article by Andrew Dunstan</a> (2005) or the [http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plperl.html|fine manual]. I've been doing Perl on and off for more than 15 (20?) years; more seriously since using mod_perl. Working structured and using strict makes Perl lose some of that <a target="_blank" href="/index.pl?node_id=62398">uncanny</a> ability to understand intention, but it is still easily the best language there is. Somebody had to say it. ;) TWIMC: [ http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Projects/ |TEI encoding projects]  <a href="http://imgur.com/eMyw6"> <img src="http://i.imgur.com/eMyw6.gif" alt="elephant hands down" title="elephant hands down" /> </a> 2013-06-18 09:55:43 4633 399662 404069 %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S 235 85 &01;