Re: SQL-Invoked Procedures for 8.1

Neil Conway wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 01:56, Joe Conway wrote:
> 
>>As other's have pointed out, this is very common in the MS SQL Server 
>>world (and I believe Sysbase also supports it).
> 
>>From looking at the docs, it appears this isn't supported by Oracle or
> DB2 (correct me if I'm wrong). I can see how it would be useful, but I
> don't think it needs to be part of the first shot at doing stored
> procedures.

I believe you are correct for Oracle at least.

But for people porting over from MSSQL it is a *huge* deal, and given 
the native windows port of Postgres with 8.0.0, I predict *many* 
requests for this in upcoming months.

Joe