Re: PL/pgSQL PERFORM with CTE - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: PL/pgSQL PERFORM with CTE
Date
Msg-id 20130829215912.GB4283@awork2.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: PL/pgSQL PERFORM with CTE  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: PL/pgSQL PERFORM with CTE  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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On 2013-08-29 23:54:28 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > No think so PERFORM is a significant problem. A mayor problem for
> > beginners is usually a fact, so PL/pgSQL is ALGOL like languages - and they
> > don't know with these languages. Second problem is missing a more dynamic
> > data structures. Next a really different syntax and usage of OUT variables,
> > ...
> >
> 
> look to stackoverflow for often questions - the big issue is impossibility
> to iterate over record -- and return really dynamic result - pivot tables.

So what? That's completely orthogonal to the discussion at hand. We're
discussion about specific change, that there are other features people
badly want shouldn't be stopping this.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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