[HACKERS] Support for persistant objects in PostgreSQL?

2004-08-02 Thread Suresh Tri
Hi, Can you have persistant objects in PostgreSQL? In Oracle you can have create Object types. e.g create type ADDRESS as object (street_name VARCHAR2(30), house_noNUMBER); In Oracle you can even have references to these objects from other tables. Is persistant objects and

Re: [HACKERS] Improvements to PostgreSQL

2004-07-26 Thread Suresh Tri
PostgreSQL in India. I suggest you read the developers FAQ on the developers page: http://developers.postgresql.org then subscribe to hackers to discuss feature additions. Thanks. --- Suresh Tri wrote: Hi all

[HACKERS] Stored procedures - Oracle vs postgresql

2004-07-26 Thread Suresh Tri
Hi all, I am currently trying to estimate the effort required to implement Oracle type stored procedure in PostgreSQL. As I understood Oracle supports both functions and procedures, but postgres only functions. ALso there are no OUT parameter in postgres. I got some info from

Re: [HACKERS] Improvements to PostgreSQL

2004-07-26 Thread Suresh Tri
. Thanks once again, Suresh --- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suresh Tri wrote: 2. Core functionality add-ons to postgresql :- -Table joins Already done. -Java stored procedures Already done. -Backup and recovery (incremental backup/restore) Will appear in next release