2012/8/31 Dimitri Fontaine <dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr>: > Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> writes: >> a motivation for this patch was discussion about parametrised DO >> statement - and simple possibility of access to host variables (psql) >> variables from server - PL scripts. > > Pavel, you didn't say what you think about the WITH FUNCTION proposal?
I don't like it - this proposal is too "lispish" - it is not SQL > > And you didn't say how do you want to turn a utility statement into > something that is able to return a result set. if we support "real" procedures ala sybase procedures (MySQL, MSSQL..) - then we can return result with same mechanism - there are no significant difference between DO and CALL statements - you don't know what will be result type before you call it. Regards Pavel Stehule > > Regards, > -- > Dimitri Fontaine > http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
