Blas Rodriguez Somoza wrote
>Up to the date, DB2, postgresql and interbase has complete SQL/PSM support,
whether Oracle claims that it PL/SQL is "similar" to PSM. Sybase and
Microsoft follow 
>the TransactSQL and apparently don't want to support any ANSI/ISO standard
more than ANSI92-Entry. 
>Standards is good for all, but specially for Open Source projects, because
it makes easier to switch from one database to another. 
>I don't check the full SQL/PSM standard. But the following is a quick list
of what SAPDB lacks of 
>CREATE PROCEDURE (as a synonym to CREATE DBPROC) DROP PROCEDURE (as a
synonym to DROP DBPROC) 
>LEAVE (as a synonym to BREAK) 
>ELSEIF clausule at IF. 
>CASE statement. 
>LOOP statement. 
>FOR statement. 
>If there is any interest in standards compliance, I think those enhacements
must be in the TODO list. 
>Does SAP want SAPDB to be standard compliant?
Up to now SAPDB has no PSM standard support. If only the described features
have to be supported, I don't
see any problems to fulfill the standard. I will take this into account for
the planned improvements of the
procedure language. 
Thomas
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Thomas Anhaus
SAPDB, SAP Labs Berlin
 

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