On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 19:13 +0100, Hannu Krosing wrote: > As an idea seems quite good, but maybe the "run once" part could use > its > own keyword in the future, something like PREPARE or REQUIRE?
Well, either we do it in a language independent way, in which case this would be too prescriptive, or we do it in a Python-specific way (less likely), but "prepare" or "require" are not Python concepts. > WHile at it, why not also fix the functions to be real function > _with_ _real_ _arguments_ , not arguments-passed-in-as-globals > > and at least we could call this function with its real name inside its > own module > (stored global namespace) so we could easily do recursion > > CREATE FUNCTION factorial(n bigint) returns bigint LANGUAGE plpythonu > AS $$ > if n==0: return 1 > return factorial(n-1) * n > $$; > These are also good things to fix, but are they related? Could they not be fixed independently? -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
