On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 05:15:19PM -0400, pgsql@mohawksoft.com 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).
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