Re: Usability, MySQL, Postgresql.org, gborg, contrib, - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Usability, MySQL, Postgresql.org, gborg, contrib,
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In response to Re: Usability, MySQL, Postgresql.org, gborg, contrib,  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
> If we install plPGSQL by default, we should install any other pl 
> language that was configured at runtime by default as well. This 
> includes plPerl, plTCL, and plPython.
>
> Of course only if they were compiled in, but sense they are a part of 
> the core distribution we shouldn't favor one over the other.
>
> Personally, plpgSQL is only useful to those who are coming from Oracle.
> People are more likely to be comfortable with plPython or plPerl than
> plpgSQL.
>

Joshua - as you know I'm a perl fan. But plpgsql is special, for a 
number of reasons, not least that it doesn't require any extra 
libraries, and should be installable on every postgresql system.

I know people hate playing favourites, but you can take that too far.

cheers

andrew



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