On 04/22/2011 12:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> You could possibly lobotomize plpgsql down to a small number of
> datatypes and operators that are known not to ever do anything more
> interesting than palloc() and elog(), but IMO the usefulness would be
> low and the fragility high. It'd be better to give the task to an
> interpreter that was never built to depend on a SQL environment in the
> first place. Thus my thought about perl etc.
>
It's not clear to me what the other interpreter would actually be doing.
cheers
andrew