On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 02:31:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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. I would still argue that if any language should be installed by default it should be plpgsql and not java. As I mentioned, everyone using a database already knows SQL; not nearly as many know java. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828
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