A Couple of Reasons Why You Should Use PostgreSQL

Here's a nice article showing a couple of good reasons why you should consider using PostgreSQL in many of your future projects: http://www.cubrid.org/blog/dev-platform/postgresql-at-a-glance From the jOOQ perspective - which is a perspective focussed on SQL feature scope rather than storage and maintenance - Postgres is one of the most outstanding databases out there, and it's completely … Continue reading A Couple of Reasons Why You Should Use PostgreSQL

Postgres INSERT .. RETURNING clause and how this can be simulated in other RDBMS

One of jOOQ's major features is to take the most useful SQL constructs and clauses from any RDBMS and make them available to other SQL dialects, as well. This had been done previously with MySQL's INSERT .. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE construct, which can be easily simulated with the more powerful SQL standard MERGE statement, … Continue reading Postgres INSERT .. RETURNING clause and how this can be simulated in other RDBMS