Re: BUG #5136: Please drop the string literal syntax for CREATE FUNCTION ...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Timothy Madden <terminatorul(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5136: Please drop the string literal syntax for CREATE FUNCTION ...
Date: 2009-10-25 22:13:07
Message-ID: 21748.1256508787@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Timothy Madden <terminatorul(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Ok I get it. So Posgres also offers perl and python in addition to SQL.
> But at least for SQL, which is included and defined in the standard, could
> the syntax be made conforming ?

I think you still haven't got the point: there is *no* function language
that we offer that exactly matches what the spec has got. Not using
string-literal syntax, difficult as that is already, would probably
represent about 1% of the work needed to implement what the spec
suggests.

regards, tom lane

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