> > A good example is our function language support. While most of the databases
> > above support some type of procedural language, do any of them support more
> > than 10 different types of procedural languages?
> Maybe this is a silly question, but do you really need more than 10?
> What's the matter with one that does a great job?
Aside from languages that excel at certain jobs (plR) it is useful to
provide what a shop already knows. Perl shops will prefer perl, PHP
shops will prefer php, etc.
> > Or do they have an
> > extensible enough codebase that can allow people to create their own
> > languages, like Joe Conway recently did with plR, or the folks at Command
> > Prompt have been doing with plPHP?
> I need this explained to me in a bit more detail - URL?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/sql-createlanguage.htmlhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plhandler.html
