Re: plpython3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: plpython3
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Msg-id 20100201211149.GC7363@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: plpython3  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut escribió:
> On mån, 2010-02-01 at 12:01 -0800, Nathan Boley wrote:
> > I code nearly exclusively in python and C, but I have
> > often found pl/python to be very unwieldy.  For this reason I often
> > use pl/perl or pl/pgsql for problems that, outside of postgres, I
> > would always use python.
> 
> I find that curious, because much of the criticism about the current
> PL/Python can be traced back to the fact that the implementation used to
> be an exact copy of PL/Perl.

Perhaps the problem is that PL/Perl used to be unwieldy back when
PL/Python was created.  PL/Perl has definitely seen a lot more activity.

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