| From: | Mike Toews <mwtoews(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | John Townsend <jtownsend(at)advancedformulas(dot)com> |
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| Subject: | Re: Procedural Languages |
| Date: | 2012-05-31 20:13:28 |
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On 1 June 2012 02:36, John Townsend <jtownsend(at)advancedformulas(dot)com> wrote:
> There are least 10 Procedural Languages available for PostGreSQL. The one
> that comes with the installation is PL/pgSQL.
The count looks closer to 18
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL#Procedural_languages
but I doubt some get much use (PL/LOLCODE anyone?).
PL/R opens some good functionality not offered by any other language,
and is particularly useful for statistics, GIS and other science
applications. R itself is often a wrapper to dusty FORTRAN subroutines
published in statistics journals decades ago.
-Mike
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