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

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: PL/pgSQL 2
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Msg-id 54071505.5050001@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: PL/pgSQL 2  (Jan Wieck <jan@wi3ck.info>)
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On 09/02/2014 03:50 PM, Jan Wieck wrote:

> PL/pgSQL's syntax was modelled to look like PL/SQL. Which is a Ada/COBOL
> lookalike.
>
> Instead of trying to mimic what it was or a T-SQL thing instead ...
> maybe it is time to come up with a true PostgreSQL specific PL for a
> change?
>
> Just for the sake of being something new, and not a copy of some old
> opossum, that's rotting like road kill on the side of the highway for a
> decade already.
>

Well, I don't think PostgreSQL needs its own PL. I mean we already have 
several (what other database has pl/javascript or pl/python?)

Besides, the idea of this community trying to build its own programming 
language... oh lord ;)

JD


>
> Jan
>


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