| From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | David G Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PL/pgSQL 2 |
| Date: | 2014-09-02 03:12:35 |
| Message-ID: | 540535A3.6040009@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 09/02/2014 09:40 AM, David G Johnston wrote:
> Random thought as I wrote that: how about considering how pl/pgsql
> functionality can be generalize so that it is a database API that
> another language can call? In that way the server would drive the core
> functionality and the language would simply be an interpreter that
> enforces its specific notion of acceptable syntax.
That's pretty much what we already have with the SPI and procedural
language handler infrastructure. PL/Perl, PL/Python, etc exist because
we have this.
What do you see as missing from the current infrastructure? What can't
be done that should be able to be done in those languages?
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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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