On 03/16/2017 05:32 PM, David Steele wrote:
> On 2/25/17 1:27 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Something that has been bothering me in PL/Python for a long time is the
>> non-object-oriented way in which plans are prepared and executed:
>>
>>     plan = plpy.prepare(...)
>>     res = plpy.execute(plan, ...)
>>
>> where plpy.execute() takes either a plan or a query string.
>>
>> I think a better style would be
>>
>>     plan = plpy.prepare(...)
>>     res = plan.execute(...)
>>
>> so that the "plan" is more like a statement handle that one finds in
>> other APIs.
>>
>> This ended up being very easy to implement, so I'm proposing to allow
>> this new syntax as an alternative.
>>
>> I came across this again as I was developing the background sessions API
>> for PL/Python.  So I'm also wondering here which style people prefer so
>> I can implement it there.
> This patch applies cleanly at cccbdde.
>
> Any Python folks out there who would like to take a crack at reviewing this?
>
>


I'm not particularly a Python folk, but I've done enough over the years
with PLs, including PLPython, that I think I can review this :-)

cheers

andrew

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