Re: [HACKERS] plPHP in core?

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Psql_General (E-mail)" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] plPHP in core?
Date: 2005-04-04 00:41:51
Message-ID: 20050404004151.GV53309@decibel.org
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On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 07:29:02AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> This argument doesn't hold too much weight. Namely because there are only
> 3-5 really popular languages out there. They are marketing languages.
> The are languages you include because your database doesn't "sound"
> complete with out them. Regardless if you can download them separately.
> People are lazy. They don't want to download them separately.
>
> I see those as:
>
> plPgsql (for Oracle people)
> plPerl
> plPHP

What databases support perl or php stored procs/functions? Or python for
that matter?
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