Re: Best Procedural Language? - Mailing list pgsql-general

>>  - Doing a lot of DB manipulation in pl/Perl or pl/Tcl or such
>>    requires having an extra level of function manipulations that
>>    won't be as natural as straight pl/pgsql.
>
> Another important distinguishing characteristic is whether it supports
> set returning functions.  I think only plpgsql does right now.

Actually no. Plperl, plphp, plruby and I believe even pl/Tcl support set
returning functions.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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