I would like for this to be the case. I was DBA of a Postgres database for LIMS almost 2 decades ago. Back then you could code functions for the database to exe

I would like for this to be the case. I was DBA of a Postgres database for LIMS almost 2 decades ago. Back then you could code functions for the database to execute on data and it was very powerful, but also very clunky. The tools to do software development in the database was not mature at all. A lot has changed in the past 20 years and SQL has evolved. Do you think SQL will expand that much or there will be APIs built into the database? Near-data functions are powerful and useful, but I would want my development environment to be more like version controlled code than "built-in". I wonder if near-data functions on small databases is the solution to the limit of statelessness that you have with functions as a service.