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

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: PL/pgSQL 2
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Msg-id 540647CF.8080209@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: PL/pgSQL 2  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On 09/02/2014 03:19 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> On 09/01/2014 02:04 AM, Joel Jacobson wrote:
>> Please share your wish list of things you would want in plpgsql2 which
>> are not possible to implement in plpgsql because they could possibly
>> break compatibility.
>
> Well, if I were designing a new procedural SQL extension language, I
> wouldn't base it on the bastard child of ADA and SQL89.  I would come up
> with something new.  One of the critical features such a new language
> would have would be the ability to dynamically generate queries
> *without* using string manipulation and EXECUTE.
>
> Otherwise, improvements to PL/pgSQL amount to the proverbial porcine
> makeover.
>

+1

JD

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