Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>> Tony Caduto wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I read in a article/interview on
>>> http://madpenguin.org/cms/html/62/3677.html
>>> that work was being done on improving/adding support for sql standard
>>> compliant stored procs/functions
>>>
>>> Does anyone know exactly what that means?
>>>
>>> Does it mean that Postgres will have stored procs that can have input
>>> and output params?
>>
>>
>> Yes.
>
>
> I think that keyword here is 'sql standard compliant', not stored
> procedures
> itself, because we have them for a long time and with support of dozen
> languages. Or I miss something ?
What I read from this is, when will PostgreSQL have stored procedures
like Oracle. Thus the IN/OUT parameter statement.
My understanding is that 8.1 will have a much more mature implementation of
stored procedures versus UDFs (Which we have had forever).
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>>
>>
>
> Regards,
> Oleg
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