Re: pre-MED

From: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: "PG Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pre-MED
Date: 2008-10-31 17:37:00
Message-ID: 603c8f070810311037p4e42ccbeqc76320416332dc17@mail.gmail.com
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> Please find attached a patch which works in PL/Perl, the work having
> been done by Andrew (RhodiumToad) Gierth. It's not clear to me how
> this would be generally surface-able to SQL, though. Any ideas?
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION show_qual()
> RETURNS TEXT
> LANGUAGE plperl
> AS $$
> return $_QUAL->{qual_string};
> $$;

I thought the point here was to change the basic interface to an SQL
function which PL/perl or any other language could access in the usual
way. All this does is keep the strange, magical interface but then
use PL/perl to put a more normal looking wrapper around it.

...Robert

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