On 2014-09-01 11:11 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote:
> No, really: if there is a new version of a "language", which
> modifies the current syntax of plpgsql; if plpgsql is already very
> similar to PL/SQL: why not rather than coming up with a new syntax use
> an already existing one? One that many, many more users than plpgsql,
> already know?
The point isn't to create a new language just for the sake of creating a
new one. It's to fix the problems PL/PgSQL has. If we're just going to
trade the problems in PL/PgSQL with another set of problems implemented
by PL/SQL, we're just worse off in the end.
.marko