Re: Anonymous Code Blocks as Lambdas? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Anonymous Code Blocks as Lambdas?
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In response to Re: Anonymous Code Blocks as Lambdas?  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
>> it should be light relation. 'DO' should be parametrised, and psql can
>> use own variables as 'DO' parameters.
>
> I see, because `DO` is a statement, not an expression. Thus arguments 
> don't really make much sense (I wish it was an expression!).
>
> I don't think it's a good idea to tie SQL syntax to a feature of a 
> client, though.
>


Me either.

I think we need to take this more slowly. Frankly, I think we have most 
of what we really wanted already, and I suspect anything else is 
probably not worth the code complexity involved. The original motivation 
as I understood it was to enable people to embed a piece of pl/foo in a 
script with minimal syntactic overhead, and I think that's been achieved.

cheers

andrew



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