Re: Comparing databases

From: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Paul Ganainm <paulsnewsgroups(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: Postgresql Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Comparing databases
Date: 2003-11-23 19:18:28
Message-ID: 1069615107.4494.10.camel@jester
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> > A good example is our function language support. While most of the databases
> > above support some type of procedural language, do any of them support more
> > than 10 different types of procedural languages?

> Maybe this is a silly question, but do you really need more than 10?
> What's the matter with one that does a great job?

Aside from languages that excel at certain jobs (plR) it is useful to
provide what a shop already knows. Perl shops will prefer perl, PHP
shops will prefer php, etc.

> > Or do they have an
> > extensible enough codebase that can allow people to create their own
> > languages, like Joe Conway recently did with plR, or the folks at Command
> > Prompt have been doing with plPHP?

> I need this explained to me in a bit more detail - URL?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/sql-createlanguage.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plhandler.html

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