Re: Additional psql requirements - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Additional psql requirements
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Msg-id 937d27e10807250140x1e28edc6iec5986987db74917@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Additional psql requirements  ("Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Additional psql requirements  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/7/25 Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>:
>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:52 AM, daveg <daveg@sonic.net> wrote:
>>
>>> It seems to me that a sql-like client side scripting language should be as
>>> similar as possible to plpgsql. Pgscript looks a bit like plpgsql, but is
>>> pretty much incompatible with it for no particularly obvious reason.
>>
>> pgScript originally used a c-like syntax when it was pgUnitTest iirc.
>> The new version is designed to be familiar to users of T-SQL.
>
> it is little bit unhappy - it's like T-SQL, but it isn't T-SQL - and
> it's far to plpgsql

I see no point in replicating pl/pgsql. Better to implement anonymous
blocks in the server for that.

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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com


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