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I don't have the stats to back this up, bit that all seems very niche. I have to imagine you get downvoted because people don't recognize these as real requirem

• jsty 7y ago
  Compiling SQL -> native I'm not sure deserves to be described as niche, since lots of analytical queries can benefit from that. Worth pointing out that Postgres has a JIT compiler [0]. [0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/jit.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/jit.html
• jacques_chester 7y ago
  > I needed not a single one of these. Ever. Enterprise software tends to have lots of features that the majority of folks will never encounter in their career. The enterprise market space is composed of around a thousand potential customers world wide, all of whom are large enough to have sophisticated and complex internal computing environments. They have varying norms, requirements, workloads, regulatory environments, industry standards and so on and so forth. Each has a lot of money and rejecting the requirements of one company often means you are effectively rejecting several, or perhaps even an entire sector. So you add something to cover them and before long, your software has the union set of features required solely by enormous companies. From a non-enterprise view a particular feature may seem like absurd overkill. But someone, somewhere, needs it and there is a long and often impressive story of how it was achieved.