Re: PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server, Oracle - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 09:41 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> "First, the ability to write functions and stored procedures is
> somewhat more limited than you would get with Oracle's PL/SQL or
> Sybase's T-SQL."
>
> I don't know which languages they were looking at, but it's hard to
> imagine how PL/SQL or T-SQL outdid PL/Perl, PL/PythonU, PL/Ruby,
> PL/sh, etc. from a flexibility perspective.
>

Or C, for that matter. Doesn't get much less "limited" than allowing C
functions with a very powerful SPI. It's hard to argue with them when
they don't provide a single example, however.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis