2008/10/23 Greg Stark <greg.stark@enterprisedb.com>:
> For making psql fully scriptable I would think it would be smarter to embed
> a full well-supported existing language rather than trying to invent a new
> one.
plpgsql?
regards
Pavel
>
> If we do want to to that I would suggest looking at lua which is intended to
> be used this way.
>
> greg
>
> On 23 Oct 2008, at 05:45 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
>> Joshua Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>>
>>> "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "We can't do anything unless we do everything" is a recipe for
>>>> failure.
>>
>>> True enough, but a car doesn't roll without at least four wheels.
>>
>> Perhaps more to the point: you don't have to implement every part of a
>> set of features at the same time, but it's a good idea to design them
>> all together. Else you risk writing something that doesn't play nice
>> with the other parts; and by the time you find out, it's too late to
>> change without creating a backwards-compatibility problem.
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
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