Re: actualized SQL/PSM patch - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: actualized SQL/PSM patch
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Msg-id 200804030044.m330iWu21873@momjian.us
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In response to Re: actualized SQL/PSM patch  ("Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Hello
>
> On 01/04/2008, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > "Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> >  > I actualized sql/psm patch. This patch can be downloaded from
> >  > http://www.pgsql.cz/patches/plpgpsm.diff.gz
> >
> >  The fundamental problem I've got with this patch is that it adds 400K
> >  of new code (and that's just the code, not counting documentation or
> >  regression tests) that we'll have to maintain, to obtain a feature that
> >  so far as I've heard there is precisely zero demand for.
> >
> >  The duplicativeness of the code with plpgsql doesn't make this prospect
> >  any more pleasant, either.
> >
> >  The idea would be a lot easier to swallow if the code were refactored
> >  to avoid the duplication with plpgsql.
> >
>
> This is long run and needs hard reorganisation of plpgsql code. And
> moving some plpgsql code to core. But I don't expect so plpgpsm code
> can be less than 200KB.
>
> Regards
> Pavel Stehule
>
> >                         regards, tom lane
> >
>
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