Bruce Momjian is best known as a member of the PostgreSQL core team, what most people don’t know is that in the early ’90s, before he was working on Postgres, he wrote another SQL database. And he wrote it in shell. The result, SHQL is a pretty damn cool piece of software. I had an informal chat about it with Bruce a couple weeks ago at SCALE, and just had to write about it. The source is definite