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On 2019-09-10, at 23:49, Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com> wrote:

> One might then think: why still be in Org mode?  As opposed to a
> traditional database.  [...]

Why not both?

Did anyone consider writing a foreign data wrapper (see
e.g. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers) so that
PostgreSQL could reference Org tables directly?

I'm not sure how /useful/ that would be, but we're here for cool, not
useful, no? ;-)

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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