Github user lisakowen commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hawq-docs/pull/101#discussion_r105472315
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-SQL is the language of most other relational databases use as query
language. It is portable and easy to learn. But every SQL statement must be
executed individually by the database server.
+PL/pgSQL is a trusted procedural language that is automatically installed
and registered in all HAWQ databases. With PL/pgSQL, you can:
-PL/pgSQL is a loadable procedural language. PL/SQL can do the following:
+- Create functions
+- Add control structures to the SQL language
+- Perform complex computations
+- Use all of the data types, functions, and operators defined in SQL
-- create functions
-- add control structures to the SQL language
-- perform complex computations
-- inherit all user-defined types, functions, and operators
-- be trusted by the server
+SQL is the language most relational databases use as a query language.
While it is portable and easy to learn, every SQL statement is individually
executed by the database server. Your client application sends each query to
the database server, waits for it to be processed, receives and processes the
results, does some computation, then sends further queries to the server. This
back-and-forth requires interprocess communication and incurs network overhead
if your client is on a different host than the HAWQ master.
-You can use functions created with PL/pgSQL with any database that
supports built-in functions. For example, it is possible to create complex
conditional computation functions and later use them to define operators or use
them in index expressions.
+PL/pgSQL does not have these limitations. When creating functions with the
PL/pgSQL language, you can group computation blocks and queries inside the
database server, combining the power of a procedural language and the ease of
use of SQL, but with considerable savings of client/server communication
overhead. With PL/pgSQL:
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good point. i will reword.
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