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This is my number one gripe about PGSQL. It's never had "real stored procedures", a feature which has been on the TODO list for a long, long time and nobody is even working on it. See Server-Side Languages/Implement stored procedures items and associated notes/threads here - http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo

Beyond that, my other gripes about PGSQL are all surrounding the fact that it's simply not as polished or as widely used as SQL Server. I can't just drop PG in at some business site and expect the IT staff to be able to handle maintenance.

The Postgres GUI tools are extremely lackluster compared to the standard Microsoft SQL Server tools. Even the third party apps like Navicat are simply not as robust or as trustworthy as SQL Server Management Studio and the SQL Server Profiler. And there is literally nothing out that that compares with SQL Server Data Tools.



What's the difference between "real" stored procedures and postgres functions?


I would imagine PG doesn't place much emphasis on GUI tools, being primarily hosted on Linux/BSD... Does your criticism apply to CLI tools too?




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