Re: [HACKERS] New procedural language

2017-03-15 Thread Amit Langote
Hi, On 2017/03/15 16:20, Massimo Fidanza wrote: > Il 15 mar 2017 3:52 AM, "Amit Langote" ha > scritto: >> On 2017/03/15 11:08, Massimo Fidanza wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> what it means to add a new procedural language such as Go or Rust? >> >> I think you're looking

Re: [HACKERS] New procedural language

2017-03-15 Thread Massimo Fidanza
But there is a difference between python and Go or Rust that the first is interpreted and the seconds are compiled like C. All PL instead of C and Java (also byte code interpreted) are interpreted Il 15 mar 2017 3:52 AM, "Amit Langote" ha scritto: > Hi, > > On

Re: [HACKERS] New procedural language

2017-03-14 Thread Amit Langote
Hi, On 2017/03/15 11:08, Massimo Fidanza wrote: > Hello, > > what it means to add a new procedural language such as Go or Rust? I think you're looking for how to write a "PL function call handler", most likely in C. See for example how plpython_call_handler() is defined in

Re: [HACKERS] New procedural language

2017-03-14 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Massimo Fidanza wrote: > what it means to add a new procedural language such as Go or Rust? If you are willing to allow functions defined in Postgres to be written in such languages, you are likely looking some answers in the documentation

[HACKERS] New procedural language

2017-03-14 Thread Massimo Fidanza
Hello, what it means to add a new procedural language such as Go or Rust? Thanks Massimo

Re: [HACKERS] new procedural language - PL/R

2003-02-11 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) Knowing the trend to move stuff *out* of the PostgreSQL source tarball, and assuming plr is released under GPL, is there any chance that it would be accepted into src/pl or contrib, or should I start a gborg project (I'd prefer if it

[HACKERS] new procedural language - PL/R

2003-02-03 Thread Joe Conway
I'm nearing completion of a new procedural language, PL/R. It provides an interface to the R Statistical Computing language. R is similar to the commercial package S-Plus; for more on R see: http://www.r-project.org/ Here is the first paragraph of their intro: R is a language and environment

Re: [HACKERS] new procedural language - PL/R

2003-02-03 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) Knowing the trend to move stuff *out* of the PostgreSQL source tarball, and assuming plr is released under GPL, is there any chance that it would be accepted into src/pl or contrib, or should I start a gborg project (I'd prefer if it

Re: [HACKERS] new procedural language - PL/R

2003-02-03 Thread cbbrowne
Any strong feelings on whether this is necessary for a first release? No. I'm not sure you'd really need triggers written in R ever ;-) Yeah, that's what I figured too. Indeed. R sounds like it might be an interesting platform from which to do data mining, and in that sort of context,

Re: [HACKERS] new procedural language - PL/R

2003-02-03 Thread Joe Conway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What might be nifty would be to have some mappings that did Clever Transformations of Queries Into Views, particularly if that allowed harnessing the DBMS to do some of the statistical analysis behind your back... I'm not quite sure what you mean here, but it does