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

From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: PL/pgSQL 2
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Msg-id 54054AC2.9030005@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: PL/pgSQL 2  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 09/02/2014 12:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> As a case in point, EDB have spent quite a few man-years on their Oracle
> compatibility layer; and it's still not a terribly exact match, according
> to my colleagues who have looked at it.  So that is a tarbaby I don't
> personally care to touch ... even ignoring the fact that cutting off
> EDB's air supply wouldn't be a good thing for the community to do.

Yep. Especially as PL/SQL is not a lovely language to work with anyway;
if the goal was "a better built-in PL" then PL/SQL wouldn't be my first
choice by any stretch.

-- Craig Ringer                   http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services



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