It means that you can create stored procedures/functions which reside in
the database that are written in java (as opposed to the native SQL
programming language).
Why would you want this? If you were more familiar with java than any of
the currently supported procedural languages, then it means that you don't
necessarily have to get to grips with another programming language.
This would be a "nice to have" for Postgres too - I believe that it
supports PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, and PL/Python at present.
Oracle also offers the ability to write stored procedures in java.
It's funny, even though I program in java all the time, I still write my
procedures in the SQL programming language (PL/pgSQL). Even if the java
language were available for Postgres, I'm not sure I would use it...
John Sidney-Woollett
Tony (Unihost) said:
> Can someone a little more clever than I (which means just about anyone
> on this list) tell me what the implications/benefits are of this are
> please?
>
> http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/12/19/1628241.shtml?tid=108&tid=126&tid=137&tid=156&tid=198
>
> Cheers
>
> T.
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