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Things I want in a modern relational query language

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

A thoughtful critique and design exploration for a modern relational query language, arguing for a more expressive, functional-friendly syntax, clearer query planning, richer user-defined types, and pattern matching to reduce verbosity and errors in SQL-like code. The piece references Postgres and IBM i, and includes code-era examples to illustrate potential improvements.

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