On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:50:45PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > I'm going through the anonymous-code-blocks patch now. There are
> > some things missing, notably the ability to create a language with
> > an anonymous-code-block handler. The only way you can do it is to
> > have a pg_pltemplate entry, which is certainly not good enough for
> > languages not distributed with the core. The obvious solution is
> > to add an optional clause "INLINE function_name" to CREATE
> > LANGUAGE, paralleling the VALIDATOR clause. This'd require adding
> > INLINE as a keyword. (I assume it could be an unreserved keyword,
> > but haven't actually tried yet.) Does anyone object to that plan,
> > or want to propose a different keyword?
>
> Should we consider another generic options syntax, while we're on a
> roll? In the long run, that's the best way to avoid having a
> zillion keywords.
>
> CREATE LANGUAGE name (TRUSTED, PROCEDURAL, HANDLER x, VALIDATOR y,
> INLINE z);
I understand that some PLs are OO, functional, etc., but for our
purposes, isn't PROCEDURAL just noise?
Cheers,
David.
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