Re: PL/pgSQL 2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marko Tiikkaja
Subject Re: PL/pgSQL 2
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Msg-id 5404E5B0.3080500@joh.to
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In response to Re: PL/pgSQL 2  (Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht@nosys.es>)
Responses Re: PL/pgSQL 2  (Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht@nosys.es>)
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On 2014-09-01 11:11 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote:
>       No, really: if there is a new version of a "language", which
> modifies the current syntax of plpgsql; if plpgsql is already very
> similar to PL/SQL: why not rather than coming up with a new syntax use
> an already existing one? One that many, many more users than plpgsql,
> already know?

The point isn't to create a new language just for the sake of creating a 
new one.  It's to fix the problems PL/PgSQL has.  If we're just going to 
trade the problems in PL/PgSQL with another set of problems implemented 
by PL/SQL, we're just worse off in the end.


.marko



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