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Could you write an OS based on PostgreSQL?:)
by karol 3y ago
Could you write an OS based on PostgreSQL?:)
- petercooper 3y agoIt depends on your definitions, but if you took psql and Postgres and compared it to something like an OS on a 1980s microcomputer, you're kinda there. You can run arbitrary commands, you can program it, you can debug those programs, you can run programs, and you can access storage. If you're talking more like Linux or Windows, you have.. a bit more work to do ;-)
- papichulo2023 3y agoIsnt SQL turing complete?
- hot_gril 3y agoI've thought about writing a general-purpose programming language that uses Postgres as its runtime, with the twist that it can save checkpoints to survive system reboots and also interop closely with SQL. Postgres already has a lot of nice built-in types and functions.
- cpursley 3y agoNot quite an OS, but they are doing some neat things: https://omnigres.com/ https://omnigres.com/
- rbrewer123 3y agoNot postgres, but led by its inventor, who knows a lot about high-performance databases: https://dbos-project.github.io/ https://dbos-project.github.io/