Re: PL/pgSQL 2

From: Szymon Guz <mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jan Wieck <jan(at)wi3ck(dot)info>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht(at)nosys(dot)es>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PL/pgSQL 2
Date: 2014-09-03 06:15:15
Message-ID: CAFjNrYuqgn1BJRJNhhfPUw=pvSodDC5o+OuUP4myEopenRy+oA@mail.gmail.com
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On 3 September 2014 01:08, Jan Wieck <jan(at)wi3ck(dot)info> wrote:

> On 09/02/2014 06:56 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> People are free to do what they want, but to my mind that would be a
>> massive waste of resources, and probably imposing a substantial extra
>> maintenance burden on the core committers.
>>
>
> I hear you and agree to some degree.
>
> But at the same time I remember that one of the strengths of Postgres used
> to be to be able to incorporate "new" ideas.
>
> This seems to be one of those cases.
>
> Instead of "fork" plpgsql2, what about designing a completely new
> PL/postgres from scratch? It will only take 3-10 years, but I bet it will
> be worth it after all. And I mean that. No sarcasm.
>
>
And how it would be better then already existing plperl/plpython?

- Szymon

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