Tons of pushback. But at the end of the day, the people who moan don't manage the databases. I stick with that is available in centos+EPEL, which includes sbcl

Tons of pushback. But at the end of the day, the people who moan don't manage the databases. I stick with that is available in centos+EPEL, which includes sbcl, and use ODBC for most of my work. The common tooling for open source databases is varied. A lot of what makes mariadb and postgresql happen is c, shell scripts and perl. A lot of 3rd party tools are still php. pgloader is a common lisp tool, and very useful.