>>
>>I believe that it is ideal for Postgres to be computationally complete in 
>>that one *could* use it to implement a complete application.  That isn't to 
>>say one should do this as a matter of course, good to use appropriate tools 
>>for a >>job, but that it should at least be possible if one wanted to. -- 
>>Darren Duncan

So who wants to fund the effort to create the necessary infrastructure to 
display a programmer-defined user interface screen (think of the "Forms" module 
in Microsoft Access)?  Or are you expecting the end-user to open up PgAdmin and 
type "SELECT hello_world();".  I would argue that because PostgreSQL is able to 
talk with many languages that can create these "Forms" (or even - through 
extensions - a web-browser) that such functionality is NOT DESIREABLE and thus 
PostgreSQL would not ideally be "computationally complete" by that definition.

David J.









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