John Sidney-Woollett wrote:
>It means that you can create stored procedures/functions which reside in
>the database that are written in java (as opposed to the native SQL
>programming language).
>
>Why would you want this? If you were more familiar with java than any of
>the currently supported procedural languages, then it means that you don't
>necessarily have to get to grips with another programming language.
>
>This would be a "nice to have" for Postgres too - I believe that it
>supports PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, and PL/Python at present.
>
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PostgreSQL supports more than just that including:
pl/php
pl/perl
pl/ruby
pl/python
pl/tcl
pl/c
pl/pgsql
pl/r
plr/bash (I think... or was that just pgBash?)
There was an beta (alpha?) of pl/Java at one time...
Personally I would stick with pl/python, pl/php, or pl/perl
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