Re:Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C
by morgo on Monday September 04, 2017 @04:13PM
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Product Manager for MySQL here. Yes, I agree with you that the reason is most likely support.
Consider SQL; it's declarative and highly expressive. Your users can craft queries that you did not consider, and you have to make sure they work consistently between versions. It's a very hard problem.
Creating more public APIs? It's a hard sell that vendors are sensitive to. Reducing the surface area makes it easier to add future improvements.
Consider SQL; it's declarative and highly expressive. Your users can craft queries that you did not consider, and you have to make sure they work consistently between versions. It's a very hard problem.
Creating more public APIs? It's a hard sell that vendors are sensitive to. Reducing the surface area makes it easier to add future improvements.