We don't even have embedded SQL...Maybe we should do that first...
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Igor Natanzon |**| E-mail: igor@sba.miami.edu
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On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 bibach@execpc.com wrote:
> Just a little idea to help give everyone's mind a break from 6.1
> issues for a moment. This would probably be a 7.0 thing, depending on
> how the releases go.
> Has anyone thought of making use of an embedded scripting package
> in PostgreSQL? This would be something along the lines of TCL or
> Guile. I'd lean towards Guile, personally, as it seems the most
> flexible. Guile is an embeddable Scheme (a dialect of Lisp)
> interpreter. The nice thing about it is that the version of Scheme
> that it implements is powerful enough to "emulate", if you will, other
> languages. In fact, the guys who put Guile together have already
> implemented what they call CTAX, which is a syntax very similar to C.
> I'm thinking we could intergrate this in with the Postgres parser
> (and probably the SQL Function managing code) to give us all sorts of
> new tricks. For instance, this might be a nice, easy, powerful way to
> implement some of the extensions to SQL that many commericial packages
> have (ie, variables, loops, conditionals, etc).
> What does everyone think of something like this?
>
> -Brandon :)
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