mariadb server now requires bash?

[Bob Proulx]

Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> <rant>
> There is even worse thing about both mariadb and mysql: both of them in the latest version at least use JSON (Java Script Object Notation, really ?!!) somewhere in their tables.
> I feel like these two projects just added Junk onto their product. I always was recommending postgresql to developers I serve as sysadmin for who were starting some new project…
> </rant>

Ahem...

    PostgreSQL documenation
    9.16. JSON Functions and Operators
    https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-json.html

I don't know the actual timeline but I myself heard about postgresql
adding json functionality before mysql/mariadb did.

Bob