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Thanks for pointing me to "Postgres before SQL" - the history page at postgresql.org has links to the initial documents - QUEL is like a hint of an alternative

Thanks for pointing me to "Postgres before SQL" - the history page at postgresql.org has links to the initial documents - QUEL is like a hint of an alternative universe. I think it is time to pick up a book by Michael Stonebraker.

ezequiel-garzon 8y ago
And thank you in turn for the reference. It does indeed sound very interesting [1]. I had never heard of QUEL either [2]. [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/history.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/history.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages