Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 35

PostgreSQL feels good.

Its feature set is insanely large! Just look at stuff like: stackoverflow.com/questions/1986491/sql-split-string-by-space-into-table-in-postgresql/1993058#1993058

Had a look at the source tree, and also felt good.

If Oracle is the Microsoft of database, Postgres is the Linux, and MySQL (or more precisely MariaDB) is the FreeBSD (i.e. the one that got delayed by legal issues). Except that their software licenses were accidentally swapped.

The only problem with Postgres is its name. PostgreSQL is so unpronounceable and so untypeable that you should just call it "Postgres" like everyone else.

Often known simply as SQL Server, a terrible thing that makes it impossible to find portable SQL answers on Google! You just have to Google by specific SQL implementation unfortunately to find anything about the open source ones.

Unlike the quaternions, it is non-associative.

This section is about functions that operate on numbers such as the integers or real numbers.

Let's see how long they last:

Biography of Enrico Fermi by fellow physicist, free rent on the on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/enricofermiphysi0000segr

This is generally good, especially compared to how crappy Evince, the default Ubuntu one, has been around 2014-2020.

Some notable ones:

quoteinvestigator.com/2017/09/25/progress/ on Quote Investigator says it appeared in 1948. Can't easily check, but will believe it for now.