Julia and PostgreSQL

[Christopher Long]

I'm going to take a crack at the following projects:

1) PostgreSQL support within Julia (analogous to RPostgreSQL)

2) Julia as a PostgeSQL procedural language

This will be a new experience for me, and I'm doing it primarily

as a learning experience and to (hopefully) lay a foundation for

making a meaningful contribution to the open source community

in the future.

Comments and suggestions are appreciated.

--

Christopher D. Long, San Diego Padres, 100 Park Boulevard, San Diego CA

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[Stefan Karpinski]

Cool. Good luck and don't hesitate to chime in with questions or problems. At the same time, I wonder if we should aim for a more generic database support interface?

[John Myles White]

We definitely need a DBI style interface in the long run. But I think we need DataFrames beforehand.

-- John

[Stefan Karpinski]

Yes and yes.

[david tweed]

On Thursday, June 14, 2012 1:30:06 AM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote:

Cool. Good luck and don't hesitate to chime in with questions or problems. At the same time, I wonder if we should aim for a more generic database support interface?

I know that there are some temporal-data dataseries which "look like" normal databases but are optimised for temporal queries/processing. It would certainly be nice if the "within-Julia mechanisms" for using databases made it possible to efficiently use a database of this type.

[Viral Shah]

This is fantastic. At least for 1), is there some intermediate portability layer that can allow us to use any database for querying?

-viral