Yesterday I attended the first LDNPA (Lviv .NET Programmers Association) conference, which was held in a local hotel. Three out of the four speeches were related to the changes made to the .NET Framework since the first version (new things in ASP.NET 2.0, Windows.Forms 2.0 and WPF, to be more precise). And the other speech was about new features in MS SQL Server 2005, especially, the ability to use stored procedures, functions and aggregates, developed with .NET. That seemed useful to me, so when I came home I searched the web, if there was such ability in PostgreSQL.

And I’ve found that there was plMono project, being developed to make this possible. But, unfornately, it isn’t active since around 2004 and isn’t in a functioning state yet. I think, that it would be awesome if someone took over this project and delivered it to a functioning state. The first question one may give me is: why don’t you do it yourself? Well, I do not have the required skills and am not enough familiarised with PostgreSQL source code and how it works behind the scenes. However, when I get better in that, it could be a good challange, and it’s one of the projects, that are the most interesting to me, both as a user and as a developer.