On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:01:54PM +0300, Adrian Maier wrote:
> > Personally, I think the biggest win here would be adding package support
> > and syntax to plpgsql. Not only would it make porting from Oracle
> > easier, it would also make plpgsql much, much more powerful.
>
> Hello,
>
> What do you think about having some kind of language-independent
> packages ?
> I'm thinking that it could be handy to implement some functions in
> plpgsql, some functions in plpython and so . And then bundle them
> together into the same package.
Personally, I basically only use plpgsql, but I can certainly see where
there would be value in being able to include functions and procedures
from multiple languages in one package. But I suspect this will also
make some things more difficult, such as global static variables.
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