Re: Proposal: real procedures again (8.4) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Proposal: real procedures again (8.4)
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Msg-id 16828.1193494691@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Proposal: real procedures again (8.4)  ("Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Proposal: real procedures again (8.4)
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"Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> 2007/10/27, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> Most of that sounded to me like a proposal to re-invent ecpg.  If there
>> were such a large demand for doing things that way, there would be many
>> more users of ecpg than bare libpq.  AFAICT, though, *very* few people
>> use ecpg.

> With procedures we can be in conformance with ANSI standard and others
> databases.

[ shrug... ] If you want us to buy into supporting parts of the SQL spec
other than Part 2, you need to make a case why --- the argument that
"it's in the standard" cuts no ice at all with me for all that other
stuff.  AFAICS the market demand for ecpg-style APIs is nil.
        regards, tom lane


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