I agree SQL is not perfect but I don't know of many examples of alternative languages (that are not completely proprietary). It honestly would be helpful to se

I agree SQL is not perfect but I don't know of many examples of alternative languages (that are not completely proprietary). It honestly would be helpful to see some alternatives that you think are actually good (as the ones I have seen in the past are fairly awful). The homogeneous rows point is valid but I'm not entirely sure even SQL requires that (as you can have non scalar data types as columns in many databases... although I suppose that is to your point about postgres). And yeah I mainly only use Postgres so I'm biased :)