On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:07:35AM -0500, Richard_D_Levine(at)raytheon(dot)com wrote:

> Ya know, what would be *totally* cool is to implement Oracle PL/SQL syntax
> transparently in PostgreSQL.  You just can't do packages in PL/pgSQL.  You
> can mimic them with schemas, but there are things that must be done
> differently, and probably more slowly, like package body global constants
> and variables.

If that's what you want, you may be interested in checking out
EnterpriseDB's product, which does exactly this.  There's a free beta 
you can try out if you like.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>)
"Nunca se desea ardientemente lo que solo se desea por razón" (F. Alexandre)

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