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[Anthony]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> You're basically already implementing
> materialized views, you're just doing so in the code rather than in
> the database, which if nothing else makes it more prone to mistakes.

Or, if that doesn't sell it for you, how about this: if you implement
as much logic as possible in the database rather than in your code,
the database can then be more easily accessed by code from *any
language*, as long as there's a database library available.  No need
to be stuck using Ruby/Rails for everything.  You can have programs in
perl, C, java, etc., all accessing the database together, without
worrying about data inconsistencies caused by bugs in the redundant
code implemented in each language.