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

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Best Procedural Language?
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In response to Re: Best Procedural Language?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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> I disagree.  And I was the maintainer last time I checked, so you'd say
> my opinion carries some weight.

Because it is not currently being worked does not mean it is not
maintained. It means that it is not currently being worked on. It is by
no means a dead project.

>
>>> Heck, companies are even holding talks and training classes on it
>>> now.
>
> Companies are run merely to make money.

That is a farse. Companies exist at the benefit of the shareholders. The
shareholders may deem that their main goal is making money in which case
your argument is valid. However if CMD took that approach I would be far
richer and doing a lot more then PostgreSQL. We could easily double our
revenue just by offering MySQL + PostgreSQL support and development.

>  The fact that some of them make
> money by training people to use broken products does not make the
> products any less broken.  While I am happy that people use PL/php, I
> would be much happier if it wasn't broken.

Well that would require not using PHP at all wouldn't it? ;) However,
Alvaro is correct there are currently no resources dedicated to PL/php.
There will be in the future but for now we are busy with other things.

It is however, BSD licensed please feel free to actually contribute.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake




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