Re: Sun acquires MySQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Sun acquires MySQL
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Msg-id 20080120085441.086a4d1d@jd-laptop
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In response to Re: Sun acquires MySQL  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:46:19 +0100
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote:

> > support for compiling and execution of Procedures in Postgres is
> > nonexistent 99% of SQL code in either Oracle and MySQL DB's are
> > written in Procedures..trying to port that to Postgres is a very
> > long and tedious uphill climb
>
> Sorry? PostgreSQL supports SPs in several languages.. What exactly are
> you referring to here?

Technically postgresql doesn't support SPs, we support functions. I am
not exactly sure what the difference is but I can tell you that in
terms of Oracle we are pretty far behind (plpgsql vs plsql).

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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