> On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 05:15:19PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> (5) Programming languages. We need to make a programming language >> standard >> in PostgreSQL. plpgsql is good, but isn't someone working on a Java >> language. That would be pretty slick. > > If there's going to be a single standard language, I strongly believe it > should be plpgsql. Any other language means that you have to find > something that someone else knows or is willing to learn, whereas anyone > using a database already knows SQL. plpgsql is simply an extension of > SQL, and is trivial for anyone who's worked with any other database > procedural languages to pickup. Asking a DBA to learn java or perl or > PHP is asking a lot. > > If anything I'd like to see more features brought into plpgsql, like > packages (ala Oracle).
Sorry, by standard, I meant installed by default, not to the exclusion of all else. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
