On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 18:31:48 -0500 (CDT), bibach@execpc.com wrote:
> 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. ...
Sounds good to me!
> 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).
Yes, I think the present parser is far too limited!
Not sure how hard it would be to hook in Guile, tho.
> What does everyone think of something like this?
Make it an option (like Apache modules?) so people who hate the idea
don't have to link it. I like the idea of adding a single tool, one
that is already known and tested (?), rather than going through the long
painful develop debug cycle (death of a thousand paper cuts) making ad
hoc extensions to the parser.
BTW, regarding embedded SQL, I personally give this a very low priority.
It just *sounds* intrinsically evil to me - like MS Visual GUIfied
language tools that generate template code with here-dummy comments
where you put in your own stuff. Blechh. Just my opinion.
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