Re: PL/pgSQL 2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PL/pgSQL 2
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Msg-id 13395.1409596942@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: PL/pgSQL 2  (Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht@nosys.es>)
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Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht@nosys.es> writes:
>      What I can add is that, if Postgres is to devote resources to a new 
> language, I would plan it with a broader scope. What would attract most 
> users? Would it bring non postgres users to Postgres? What could be one 
> of the killer features of any next version? My trivial answer to most of 
> these questions is: PL/SQL.

By that I suppose you mean "I wish it would act just like Oracle".
The problem with such a wish is that a lot of the incompatibilities
with Oracle are functions of the core SQL engine, not of the PL.
plpgsql already is about as close to PL/SQL as it's possible to get
without changing core Postgres behavior --- or at least, that was
the original design desire, and I don't think that it's failed in
any large degree.
        regards, tom lane



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