Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: >> Josh's position that "this should be standard SQL" is nonsense, or >> at least he ought to be making that argument to the standards committee >> not us.
> Huh? When did I say that? Sorry, I think I got one of your messages confused with one of Robert's. Anyway, > *Built-in* functions are just as good as extra syntax, as far as I'm > concerned. > Functions which require installing plpgsql, reading the docs, creating a > function, pasting it in, and saving it are NOT as good; they are > unlikely to ever be used, except by the people who didn't really need > them in the first place. Agreed, whatever we want to provide here should be available in a vanilla installation. This might argue for providing a C-code implementation instead of plpgsql, since I'm not sure we are yet ready to have plpgsql force-installed. But we can certainly design and prototype in plpgsql. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers