Postgres' preferred language

[grinder]

Walking by the Postgres website today, I see they are running a poll asking " What programming language do you use with PostgreSQL the most?"

As I speak, Java and PHP are running neck and neck, and Perl is trailing a distant third (but better than C(.*) and VB). So, if you use Postgres and Perl, how's the saying go? Vote early, vote often!

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[merlyn]

Point of pedantic order: there hasn't been anything called Postgres for about 10 years. The name of the current project and product has always been PostgreSQL.

See the history of postgreSQL as one source for this information.

To put it another way, the PostgreSQL hackers are just as offended when it's called "postgres" as when we see our beloved language spelled as "PERL". Ugh. It's a big tip-o-the-clue-meter that the person is not very familiar with the project.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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[diotalevi]

I disagree but only partially. A few months back there was some general hand-wringing on the postgresql general list about whether PostgreSQL was pronouncable and what its frequently called. In general when written it is PostgreSQL, spoken its frequently "Post gres que ell". That doesn't stop core contributors from writing "Postgres" informally and even ocassionally "pg".

So it isn't as clearly wrong as PERL vs Perl vs perl.

[stonecolddevin]

Java? Really? Who'd have thunk, I heard, and from experience, that it is one of the hardest languages to do server side stuff in. It takes a lot, but it IS efficient.