From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Jason Tesser <jtesser(at)nbbc(dot)edu> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: COnsidering a move away from Postgres |
Date: | 2005-06-30 14:20:11 |
Message-ID: | 18544.1120141211@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Jason Tesser <jtesser(at)nbbc(dot)edu> writes:
> 1. Our dev plan involves alot of stored procedures to be used and we have
> found the way this is done in PG to be painful. (ie. To return multiple
> record from different tables you have to define a type.
FWIW, this won't be essential any more in 8.1. See the examples in the
development documentation:
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/xfunc-sql.html#XFUNC-OUTPUT-PARAMETERS
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/plpgsql-declarations.html#PLPGSQL-DECLARATION-ALIASES
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/plpgsql-control-structures.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-RETURNING
> 2. Also with stored procs it is painful to return mulitple records. The syntax
> is more complicated than some other databases. (We are currently using
> PL/SQL)
What's so hard about RETURN NEXT? What would you rather have?
> 3. The tools. PgAdmin does some things well but it is lacking the features of
> some of the other gui tools.
I'm sure the pgAdmin guys would love having some more help.
regards, tom lane
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